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He was born in Brookline Massachussetts
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He was appointed chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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He was named U.S. ambassador to Great Britain.
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Navy in 1941 and two years later was sent to the South Pacific, where he was given command of a Patrol-Torpedo (PT) boat.
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In August 1943, a Japanese destroyer struck the craft, PT-109, in the Solomon Islands.
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Abandoning plans to be a journalist, Jack left the Navy by the end of 1944.
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Less than a year later, he was back in Boston preparing for a run for Congress in 1946.
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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
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in 1952 ran successfully for the Senate, defeating the popular Republican incumbent Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.
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On September 12, 1953, Kennedy married the beautiful socialite and journalist Jacqueline (Jackie) Lee Bouvier.
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Two years later, he was forced to undergo a painful operation on his back.
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After nearly earning his party’s nomination for vice president (under Adlai Stevenson) in 1956
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Kennedy announced his candidacy for president on January 2, 1960.
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Kennedy lent an unmistakable aura of youth and glamour to the White House. In his inaugural address, given on January 20, 1961,
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KENNEDY’S FOREIGN POLICY CHALLENGES
An early crisis in the foreign affairs arena occurred in April 1961, when Kennedy approved the plan to send 1,400 CIA-trained Cuban exiles in an amphibious landing at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba. -
Kennedy clashed again with Khrushchev in October 1962 during the Cuban missile crisis.
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Kennedy sent an army convoy to reassure West Berliners of U.S. support, and would deliver one of his most famous speeches in West Berlin in June 1963.
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In July 1963, Kennedy won his greatest foreign affairs victory when Khrushchev agreed to join him and Britain’s Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in signing a nuclear test ban treaty.
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JFK’S ASSASSINATION
On November 22, 1963, the president and his wife landed in Dallas; he had spoken in San Antonio, Austin and Fort Worth the day before. From the airfield, the party then traveled in a motorcade to the Dallas Trade Mart, the site of Jack’s next speaking engagement. Shortly after 12:30 p.m., as the motorcade was passing through downtown Dallas, shots rang out; Kennedy was struck twice, in the neck and head, and was pronounced dead shortly after arriving at a nearby hospital.
