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John F. Kennedy was given birth by Joeseph and Rose Kennedy. His dad and grandfather were both politicians and he one of 9 kids.
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JFK was very sick as a child. He had scarlet fever once and adisons disease.
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The exact period when he was sick is unknown but we know he was sick in his childhood.
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JFK was a Naval Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy during WWII. Him and his crew were on a boat at night and crashed nto a Japanese destroyer and the audacious JFK sent everyone to safety.
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JFK was discharged from the Navy because of an injury.
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JFK started his political career sometime in the 1940s. He was the Congressman from the 11th Congressional District, of Boston, MA, then won the Senate for MA, and then became President.
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JFK became the 35th President of the United States of America. He won the election with 303 electoral votes.
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JFK was the main topic of the tabloids at the beginning of his presidency. They said he was too young, Catholic, and rich to be president.
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JFK helped a man named James Meredith, a man with 9 years in the countries Air Force, into school. He tried to apply for the Universersity of Missouri, and he was denied access and so JFK helped him get in.
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JFK started the Peace Corps during his presidency. He started it so they could help foreign countries with education, farming, health care, and construction.
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The US tried to help the Cubans overthrow Fidel Castro. Fidel was the dictator at the time and was cruel. The mission failed horribly and Fidel stayed in power.
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JFK said he wanted to get a man safely to the moon before the decade. At that time the US and USSR were fighting in the Cold War and JFK wanted to get someone there before the Russians did.
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JFK got reports that the Cuban's had nuclear warheads pointed towards the USA. He had to stop it before it turned to war. At the time it was still in the Cold War and the US and USSR.
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JFK built a much stronger military than many other Presidents. He did it for fear of another attack on the US just like the Cuban missile crisis.
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JFK gave a speech in Berlin on this day. It means, "I am a Berliner." This was during the time that Germany was seperated into West and East Germany.
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JFK stopped nuclear testing with the USSR. It occured because of the Cuban Missle Crisis.
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JFK was assassinated in Dallas, TX. He was shot by a payed assassin named Lee Harvey Oswald.
