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Childhood
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the second of Joseph and Rosa’s children, was born in Brookline, in Beals Street, at 3 am on May 29, 1917. In childhood, John was frail, which was caused by all sorts of diseases: from chicken pox to scarlet fever, from which he almost died. Kennedy’s brightest childhood memory is a detour from constituencies with grandfather John in 1922, when he ran for governor. -
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Secondary education
In the fall of 1930, thirteen-year-old John was sent to Canterbury Catholic School. Kennedy began his ninth grade at the private boarding school Choth Rosemary Hall, where his brother Joseph was already studying. -
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The start of political career
In 1953, Kennedy became a senator, defeating Senator Lodge in the bitter struggle. Senator Kennedy was a member of the committee on labor and public welfare. The most controversial decision of the future president during this period was the decision not to participate in the Senate’s vote on censuring Senator Joseph McCarthy about his leadership of the Commission on the Investigation of Anti-American Activities. -
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Kennedy - US President
On January 20, 1961, John F. Kennedy took the oath and thus became the 35th President of the United States. Kennedy concluded his first speech with a call: "Think not about what a country can give you, but about what you can give it." -
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Death of John Kennedy
John Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963 in the city of Dallas; while following the presidential motorcade through the streets, shots were heard. The first bullet hit the president in the neck from the back and out the front of the throat, the second hit in the head. President Kennedy was taken to the operating room, where half an hour after the attempt was made, his death was recorded