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Born on May 29, 1917, in Brookline, Massachusetts
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This was how quickly called his family, studied at Harvard. He makes several trips to Britain, where his father was appointed ambassador in December 1937.
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Then Lieutenant Kennedy saves one of his badly burned during the sinking of a gunboat, sunk by a Japanese destroyer comrades.
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Joe, intended by his family to politics, dies in combat mission.
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Abandoning plans to be a journalist, Jack left the Navy by the end of 1944.
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He is first elected as a Democrat representative from Massachusetts.
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He entered the 80th Congress in January 1947
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Kennedy won reelection to the House of Representatives in 1948 and 1950, and in 1952 ran successfully for the Senate
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He was elected to the Senate
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Kennedy married the beautiful socialite and journalist Jacqueline (Jackie) Lee Bouvier.
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John F Kennedy defeated the more liberal Hubert Humphrey and chose the Senate majority leader.
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After nearly earning his party’s nomination for vice president (under Adlai Stevenson)
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After narrowly defeating Richard Nixon and he becomes the youngest president of the United States and the first Catholic.
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A volunteer agency in developing countries.
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Authorizing the landing of Cubans opposed to Fidel Castro at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba, ending in failure.
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Whose aim is sending Americans to the moon. The number of troops, equipment and military advisers in Vietnam.
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Apogee of tension between the United States and the Soviet Union
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A speech in which he is actively engaged in the struggle for civil rights for blacks in the United States.
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A few months before his assassination, he gave a speech in which he defended unequivocally the need to end the Cold War.
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Declares its support for West Berliners saying "Ich bin ein Berliner" ("I am a Berliner") in the western part of Berlin.
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He was assassinated in Dallas (Texas, south central) and three days later buried in the military cemetery in Arlington, near Washington.
