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Beginning of a life
Born on May 29, 1917, in Brookline, Massachusetts, John F. Kennedy, His parents, Joseph and Rose Kennedy, was the second of nine children. -
Ambassador to Great Britain
In 1937 was named U.S. ambassador to Great Britain. As a student at Harvard University. -
Jack joined the U.S. Navy
Jack joined the U.S. Navy in 1941 and two years later was sent to the South Pacific, where he was given command of a Patrol-Torpedo (PT) boat -
Navy and Marine Corps Medal for heroism.
Jack joined the U.S. Navy in 1941. In August 1943, a Japanese destroyer struck the craft, PT-109, in the Solomon Islands. Kennedy helped some of his marooned crew back to safety, and was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal for heroism. -
His older brother.
His older brother, Joe Jr., was not so fortunate: He was killed in August 1944 when his Navy airplane exploded on a secret mission against a German rocket-launching site. -
JFK’s Beginnings in Politics.
As a moderately conservative Democrat, and backed by his father’s fortune, Jack won his party’s nomination handily, he entered the 80th Congress in January 1947, at the age of 29, -
The House of Representatives.
Kennedy won reelection to the House of Representatives in 1948 and 1950, and in 1952 ran successfully for the Senate, defeating the popular Republican incumbent Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. -
He married.
On September 12, 1953, Kennedy married the beautiful socialite and journalist Jacqueline (Jackie) Lee Bouvier. -
Profiles in Courage.
Two years later, he was forced to undergo a painful operation on his back. While recovering from the surgery, Jack wrote another best-selling book, “Profiles in Courage,” which won the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 1957 -
Kennedy’s Road to Presidency.
Kennedy announced his candidacy for president on January 2, 1960, in November’s election, 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. -
Glamour to the White House.
Kennedy lent an unmistakable aura of youth and glamour to the White House. 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, but also in the battle to win the ongoing Cold War against communism around the world. -
Tactic understanding.
After the missile crisis, Moscow and Washington seemed to reach a tacit understanding annulling the spirit of open confrontation and replaced by a policy of detente in which the development of a language of symbols was a challenge for the future. -
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. Intended to spur a rebellion that would overthrow the communist leader Fidel Castro, the mission ended in failure. -
Edward
The youngest Kennedy son, Edward (Ted), was elected to Jack’s former Senate seat in 1962. -
The missile crisis
In the fall of 1962, Kennedy was faced with the biggest crisis throughout his presidency, the discovery of a series of secret stations ramps Soviet medium-range missiles on the island of Cuba. -
Speeches in West Berlin.
Two months later, East German troops began erecting a wall to divide the city. 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. -
His greatest foreign affairs victory.
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 -
JFK’s Assassination
On November 22, 1963, the president and his wife landed in Dallas; 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. -
New president.
Ninety-eight minutes later, Kenny's death at the airport in Dallas, Lyndon Johnson was named the thirty-sixth president of the United States. -
Most of the bills
It also increased the distribution of food to the most needy and subsidized public schools in a country where he surrendered and surrenders still, an almost divine worship to private education. Most of the bills were not enacted until 1964, and with Lyndon B. Johnson as president.
