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The Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston is celebrating the 50th anniversary of President John F Kennedy's inauguration by tweeting his 1,000 days in office.

The 35th President of the United States was inaugurated on 20 January 1961 in Washington.

The Twitter account @kennedy1961 kicks off with the announcement that John F Kennedy had been inaugurated at 17.50, before quoting from his speech including the now famous statement: 'And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.'

The library is using recently digitised source material from its archives, such as drafts of the speech, while the tweets also include quotes and links to images and videos, and articles from newspapers.

For example, on 23 January it cites the NY Times: JFK 'scarcely slackened his pace for Sunday. Indeed, he started his day by walking...to church-bareheaded and briskly'.

Rachel Day, director of communications for the JFK Library Foundation, said: 'What you use Twitter for today is what's happening. For us, it's what was happening. We get to use this wonderful material that we have in the Kennedy Library archive to illustrate what was happening.'

The library is currently digitising its archive, which contains 48 million pages, 7,000 hours of audio recordings, 16,000 museum artefacts and 400,000 photographs. 

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