President John F. Kennedy is pictured in the Oval Office of the White House July 11, 1963. In 1961 he became the 35th U.S. president and the first Catholic to hold the office. Forty years ago, on Nov. 22, he was killed by an assassin’s bullets as his motorcade wound through Dallas. In his inaugural address Kennedy offered to the American people this injunction: “Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country.” (CNS photo courtesy John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library in Boston) (Nov. 19, 2003)