Occurring near the coldest time of the year in the District, inauguration weather is ... before John F. Kennedy took office. Though most of the snow fell Jan. 19, the 1961 inauguration holds ...

caught a cold because of the weather. This developed into pneumonia and she died at the end of March. John F. Kennedy’s inauguration day in 1961 was a cold one, but that wasn’t the only issue.

According to the National Weather ... occurred in 1961 for President Kennedy when it was only 22 degrees, for President Ulysses Grant in 1873, 16 degrees. The warmest presidential inauguration ...