John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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  • Birthdate

    Birthdate
    John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born in Brookline, Massachusettes ("John F. Kennedy."). He then grew up in Bronxville, New York, where he grew up with seven siblings and attended Choate. He attended Princeton then Harvard to follow in his father and grandfather's footsteps of being a poitician ( "A Picture Biography of John F. Kennedy').

  • Inauguration

    Inauguration
    JFK's inauguartion speech “Ask not what your country can do for you-ask what you can do for your country." This iconic, timeless line was said by JFK in his auguartion speech. Being the 35th president, he had high hopes for the future, not only foreign but also domestic. He instituted many policies that helped this nation heal from the troubled past ("Annals of American History").

  • Space Race Speech

    Watch speech hereJFK was president during the cold war and when he gave this speech, Russia had an advanced space pragram that was far beyond what America had accomplished. This continues on to the next day.

  • Space Race Speech Continued

    This meant that they were winning a part of the cold war. JFK was not going to let this continue. In this speech, he speaks to congress about upgrading NASA into global sensation that would intimidate the Russians ("Excerpt from an Address Before a Joint Session of Congress, 25 May 1961.")

  • Social Security Benefits

    Social Security Benefits
    JFK revised the Social Security bill and made it more accessible to people in need. It would help more people, and be more focused on the people who actually need fianacial assisstance. JFK was very focused on helping others domestically because the country would be better off as a whole and unite their effort to win the Cold War ("Social Security.").

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis
    Recording of Speech. JFK wanted to solve the Cuban Missile Crisis urgently. He wanted the nation to saolve the problem not through aggression that would ultimately lead to war, but through compromise and intimidation so the Russians would take their nuclear weapons out of Cuba ("Modern History Sourcebook: John F. Kennedy: Address on the Cuban Crisis).

  • Civil Rights Speech

    Civil Rights Speech
    The speech can be heard here.JFK said this speech about the incident at University of Alabama. He wanted to address the volence and discrimination that was taking place when the first African American student would attend a large public university. This continues on to the next date.

  • Civil Rights Speech Continues

    JFK was always a suporter of racial equalityHe also spoke about voting rights and equal opportunities in all public institutions ("Report to the American People on Civil Rights, 11 June 1963.").

  • Assassination

    Assassination
    Click here to watch the footage.During the celebratory parade in Dallas, Texas, John F. Kennedy's life was taken. Sitting next to his wife, he was shot multiple times, one of the shots hit his brain directly and his head looked like it exploded. JFK will forever be remebered as an honorable president that only wanted the best for humanity ("The President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection.").