Reference question

John F. Kennedy, 35th President: 1961-1963
• John F. Kennedy was the first Roman Catholic president and the first president born in the 20th century.
• JFK was the first president to hold a press conference on television.
• JFK was the youngest American elected president and the youngest to die in office.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/jk35.html
www.jfklibrary.org/
from here these books probably would have this info
http://www.americanpresidents.org/presidents/resources.asp
1. William A. DeGregorio, The Complete Book of U.S. Presidents, Wings Books (Random House), New York, 1997.

2. Joseph Nathan Kane, Presidential Fact Book, Random House, New York, 1998.

3. Thomas L. Connelly and Michael D. Senecal (editor), Almanac of American Presidents, Facts on File, New York, 1991.


and from this site I would suspect that any of these books would have that info in them too
http://www.americanpresidents.org/bibliography/34.asp
Herbert C. Parmet, Jack: The Struggles of John F Kennedy, New York, 1980
Herbert C. Parmet, JFK: The Presidency ofJohn F Kennedy, New York, 1983
Richard Reeves, President Kennedy: Profile of Power, New York, 1993
Hope this helps you!

I already knew that he was the youngest. I need to know, for certain, what print reference source to go to, to look it up. Furthermore, are the table of contents set up where I could readily find this information even if I didn't know it was JFK? Or would I have to read the whole book to find out?

If I had the books in front of me then I could look at them for you. But as I don't I picked one and went over to www.amazon.com to find this info
Joseph Nathan Kane, Presidential Fact Book, Random House, New York, 1998.

Book Description
A storehouse of presidential facts, data, and statistics, The Presidential Fact Book is a comprehensive and authoritative tour through the administrations of every United States president from Washington to Clinton. Here are thousands of facts and entertaining trivia about the men who have occupied our nation's highest office, now available in an affordable paperback for the first time. Facts, data, and statistics about presidents from Washington to Clinton are presented in two sections:

Part One profiles each president individually, with data on birth, family, education, election, and highlights of personal life and political administration.

Part Two presents data by subject, so you can compare presidents using a wide range of criteria, including early occupations, religion, education, and more.

If you go here
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/037570244X/ref=sib_dp_pt/102-9851198-2609720#reader-link

you can look at table of contents and index pages
the table of contents shows the chapter on Kennedy. The index has a link under the category Presidents to pages showing age at inauguration or succession being pages 344-391.
Based on the exerpt of the book page shown for Washington I'd say the page for Kennedy (page 226) would have had his age at becoming president on it.

Fantastic! This is what I needed. I have to be able to give specific page number information. Thank you!

Are you ready for another strange reference question? (For a $5.00 fee, I know.)

What print reference source do I use to answer the following question: What water temperature can goldfish tolerate? Again, I need to know a specific source title and where the information is found in the book.

A simple Google search for "youngest president" led me to -

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=RNWE,RNWE:2004-11,RNWE:en&q=Youngest+President

The second entry on the first page led me to Guinness site -

http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/content_pages/record.asp?recordid=57495

This should be what you need.

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Sorry, I've already been helped.

You'd need to accept the answer on this one and then ask the second question for me or someone else to research it for you.
Its helpful when you ask questions that you be precise in what you want so the fish question was a much better question than the first one was as you only asked half of what you needed to know in the first question!