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He was born on May 29, 1917, in Brookline, Massachusetts, John F. Kennedy as the second of nine children.
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Kennedy was back in Boston preparing for a run for Congress and finally won his party’s nomination handily and carried the mostly working-class Eleventh District by nearly three to one over his Republican opponent in the general election.
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Kennedy won reelection to the House of Representatives in 1948.
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Kennedy 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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After nearly earning his party’s nomination for vice president (under Adlai Stevenson) in 1956.
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Jack wrote a best-selling book, “Profiles in Courage,” which won the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 1957. (The book was later revealed to be mostly the work of Kennedy’s longtime aide, Theodore Sorenson.)
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Kennedy announced his candidacy for president and chose the Senate majority leader, Lyndon Johnson of Texas, as his running mate.
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Kennedy faced a difficult battle against his Republican opponent, Richard Nixon but due to the first-ever televised debates, Kennedy won by a narrow margin–less than 120,000 out of some 70 million votes cast–becoming the youngest man and the first Roman Catholic to be elected president of the United States.
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In his inaugural address, given on January 20, 1961, the new president called on his fellow Americans to work together in the pursuit of progress and the elimination of poverty.
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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. Intended to spur a rebellion that would overthrow the communist leader Fidel Castro.
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Edward (Ted), was elected to Jack’s former Senate seat.
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Jackie Kennedy became an international icon of style, beauty and sophistication, though stories of her husband’s numerous marital infidelities would later emerge to complicate the Kennedys’ idyllic image.
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Kennedy clashed again with Khrushchev during the Cuban missile crisis. After learning that the Soviet Union was constructing a number of nuclear and long-range missile sites in Cuba that could pose a threat to the continental United States, Kennedy announced a naval blockade of Cuba.
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Kennedy sent federal troops to support the desegregation of the University of Mississippi after riots there left two dead and many others injured.
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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.
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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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Kennedy oversaw the launch of the Peace Corps, which would send young volunteers to underdeveloped countries all over the world.
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Kennedy announced his intention to propose a comprehensive civil rights bill and endorsed the massive March on Washington.
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Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas (Texas) during his second day of visit to the city in full reelection campaign.
At that time at 12.30 am, three bullets hit Kennedy and Connally to.
