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  • On January 20, 1961,

  • John F. Kennedy became the 35th President

  • of the United States. Without question

  • his most famous speech, inspiring a

  • nation, was his inaugural address.

  • My fellow Americans, ask not what your

  • country can do for you, ask what you can

  • do for your country!”

  • He was assassinated on November 22,

  • 1963—after only

  • 1,037 days as President.

  • And in closing his speech—a call to endurance

  • endurance for the American people from Romans 12:12.

  • “. . .year in and year out, ‘rejoicing in

  • hope, patient in tribulation’—a struggle

  • struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny,

  • poverty, disease and war itself!”

  • Brought to you by Museum of the Bible.

On January 20, 1961,

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