{"id":1527,"date":"2010-11-08T00:23:06","date_gmt":"2010-11-07T21:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/?p=1527"},"modified":"2010-11-06T20:24:19","modified_gmt":"2010-11-06T17:24:19","slug":"8th-november-1960-50-years-today-united-states-presidential-election-1960-50-years-today-close-race-john-kennedy-elected-richard-nixon-43-youngest-man-elected-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/uncategorized\/8th-november-1960-50-years-today-united-states-presidential-election-1960-50-years-today-close-race-john-kennedy-elected-richard-nixon-43-youngest-man-elected-president\/","title":{"rendered":"8th November 1960 (50 years ago today) United States presidential election, 1960 (50 years ago today): In a close race, John F. Kennedy is elected over Richard M. Nixon, becoming (at 43) the youngest man elected President."},"content":{"rendered":"

On November 22, 1963, when he was hardly past his first thousand days in office, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was killed by an assassin’s bullets as his motorcade wound through Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was the youngest man elected President; he was the youngest to die…[more<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On November 22, 1963, when he was hardly past his first thousand days in office, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was killed by an assassin’s bullets as his motorcade wound through Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was the youngest man elected President; he was the youngest to die…[more]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":886,"url":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/history-teachers\/historical-anniversaries-november-2010\/","url_meta":{"origin":1527,"position":0},"title":"Historical Anniversaries for November 2010","author":"Russel Tarr","date":"October 15, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"\u2022 The following list provides important anniversaries that could be commemorated in 2010. \u2022 It can be used by teachers preparing assemblies, extension tasks and one-off lessons. \u2022 I am limiting the list to multiples of 50 years (1960 (50 years ago today), 1910 (100 years ago today), 1860 (150\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "History Teachers"","block_context":{"text":"History Teachers","link":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/category\/history-teachers\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1447,"url":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/uncategorized\/26th-september-1960-50-years-today-richard-nixon-john-kennedy-participate-televised-presidential-debate\/","url_meta":{"origin":1527,"position":1},"title":"26th September 1960 (50 years ago today) Richard M. 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