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John was born in Brookline, Massachusetts to Rose and Joseph Patrick Kennedy.
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JFK graduates from Harvard University with a bachelor of science degree.
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His college thesis about Britain's failure to prepare itself against Nazi Germany was published as a book, called Why England Slept.
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At age 24 he joins the U.S. Navy.
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He is awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal and Purple Heart for his actions while in command of PT-109.
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His older brother Joe is killed in the Air Force.
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He gets married to Jacqueline Lee Bouvier in Newport, R.I.
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He receives the Democratic nomination for president.
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He becomes the 35th president of the United States. Kennedy beat out Richard Nixon.
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He signs a bill creating the Peace Corps.
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He sends a presidential statement to be read at the Centennial Ceremony in Gettysburg National Military Park, where Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address.
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Kennedy begins his tour of Texas. Little does he know, he will not return home from this trip.
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He is shot at 12:30 p.m. while riding in an open-top motorcade through Dallas. He is pronounced dead at 1 p.m. at Parkland Memorial Hospital.
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Jack Ruby shoots and kills the main suspect of assassinating the President. The assassin's name was Lee Harvey Oswald.
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JFK is buried in Arlington National Cemetery with his son Patrick and his daughter Arabella.