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In July 1963, Kennedy won his greatest victory when Khrushchev agreed to join him for in signing a nuclear test ban treaty.
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Cuba that could pose a threat to the continental U.S, Kennedy announced a naval blockade of Cuba.
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Sending 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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Edward (Ted), was elected to Jack’s former Senate seat in 1962
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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
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Intended to spur a rebellion that would overthrow the communist leader Fidel Castro, the mission ended in failure, with nearly all of the exiles captured or killed.
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He wrote another best-selling book, “Profiles in Courage,” which won the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 1957
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Kennedy's Senate career got off to a rocky start when he refused to condemn Senator Joseph McCarthy, a personal friend of the Kennedy family whom the Senate voted to censure in 1954 for his relentless pursuit of suspected communists.
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On September 12, 1953, Kennedy married the beautiful socialite and journalist Jacqueline (Jackie) Lee Bouvier
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He entered the 80th Congress in January 1947, at the age of 29, and immediately attracted attention for his youthful appearance.
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Less than a year later, he was back in Boston preparing for a run for Congress in 1946.
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Abandoning plans to be a journalist, Jack left the Navy by the end of 1944.
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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).
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In 1934 and in 1937 was named U.S. ambassador to Great Britain.
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As a student at Harvard University, Jack traveled in Europe as his father’s secretary.
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Born on May 29, 1917, in Brookline, Massachusetts, John F. Kennedy (known as Jack)
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Kennedy won reelection to the House of Representatives, and in 1952 ran successfully for the Senate, defeating the popular Republican incumbent Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.
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Kennedy announced his candidacy for president on January 2, 1960.
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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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On November 22, 1963, in Dallas Kennedy was struck twice, in the neck and head, and was pronounced dead.
