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he was born in in Brookline, Massachusetts.
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joined the U.S. Navy in 1941
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his older brother was killed.
his Navy airplane exploded on a secret mission against a German rocket-launching site. -
left the Navy by the end of 1944
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he was back in Boston preparing for a run for Congress.
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He entered the 80th Congress in January 1947
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in 1952 ran successfully for the Senate
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Kennedy married with Jacqueline Lee Bouvier
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he was forced to undergo a painful operation on his back.
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Jack wrote “Profiles in Courage,” which won the Pulitzer Prize .
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Kennedy announced his candidacy for president.
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Elected as the 35th president of the United States,
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Kennedy approved the plan to send 1,400 CIA-trained Cuban exiles in an amphibious landing at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba
the mission ended in failure, with nearly all of the exiles captured or killed. -
Kennedy clashedwith Khrushchev during the Cuban missile crisis.
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Kennedy addresses the nation on civil rights
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Kennedy won his greatest foreign affairs victory.
Khrushchev agreed to join him and Britain’s Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in signing a nuclear test ban treaty. -
President Kennedy signed the Treaty partial ban on testing nucleare
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His assassination was in Dallas, Texas
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Kennedy supported the tenets of his party to review and change government policy on immigration
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The Select Committee on Assassinations ( U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee on Assassinations ) or ( HSCA ) was established to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
