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John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born on May 29th 1917 in Brookline Massachusetts. To Joseph Patrick Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy. He was the second of nine children.
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John graduated from Choate, a boarding school for adolescent boys in Connecticut. He was ranked 64th in a class of 112. He was very popular and had many friends.
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Kennedy graduated from Harvard, with a degree in International Affairs. He was very intelligent and played football for Harvard.
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Soon after graduating from Harvard John wrote his first book, Why England Slept. He decided to write a thesis on why Great Britain was unprepared for the war with Germany, and later that became into a book.
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Soon after graduating from Harvard, John and his brother Joe joined the Navy. John was a Lt. and assigned to the South Pacific as commander of a patrol torpedo boat, the PT-109.
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Kennedy served in the U.S navy during World War II. For his bravery he earned several medals, The Navy and Marine Corps Medal in 1944. The Purple Heart Medal in 1944.
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Kennedy ran for Congress in Massachusetts, and won in 1946. He served three terms (six years) in the House of Representatives, and in 1952 he was elected to the U.S. Senate.
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On September 12, 1953, John F. Kennedy married Jacqueline Bouvier. He was 36, and she was 24 at the time. Jacqueline was a writer with the Washington Times-Herald.
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In November of 1957, John and Jackie's first child, Caroline Kennedy, was born in New York City. This was the same year that John's book Profiles in Courage, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for biography.
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"I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party's candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic." This quote represents in what Kennedy believes in because it explains how he doesn’t want to be judged on how he’s a Catholic president, but as a Democratic candidate.
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In 1960, Kennedy and his opponent Richard Nixon participated in the first ever televised presidential debate.
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On November 8, 1960, Kennedy defeated his opponent, Richard Nixon. Kennedy received 78% of the Catholic votes and 68% of the African-American votes. Kennedy was the youngest and the first Catholic president.
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Kennedy and his wife, Jackie's second child, and first son were born on November 25, 1960. They named his John F. Kennedy, Jr., after his father.
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During Kennedy's inaugural speech, he said, "Ask not what your country can do for you, and ask what you can do for your country." This quote applies to him because he did a lot for his country. Being a Navy officer during World War II, being a congressman in 1947, a U.S. senator in 1952, and being a president.
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Kennedy had president for a short time due to his assassination in November of 1963.
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John and Jackie's third child, Patrick, dies from a lung ailment only two days after his birth.
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While Kennedy was riding in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in Dallas on Friday, November 22, 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald killed him. Kennedy was buried at Arlington National Cemetery on Monday the 25th.
