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If you are playing Minecraft Classic, they don't have 3rd person mode. EDIT: Also, if your computer OS is Windows 7, you cant use F5 or any of the other F keys. Hopefully this will be fixed.
When you press F5 when playing Minecraft, it cycles through your view of the player. There are three positions. The first and default view is first-person (through the character's eyes; what he sees). Second is third-person (looking down on him from above). The third is second-person (looking at his face)
This applies on not just Minecraft 1.6.1, but all versions of Minecraft prior to the update of 3rd person. To get off 3rd person, you must press f5. You may then go into a different angle. Press f5 again and you'll be back to 1st person mode.
f5 goes into 3rd person, f5 again goes into backwards 3rd person, and f5 again goes into 1st person.