Biography of john kennedy
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John F. Kennedy: Life in Brief
John F. Kennedy was born into a rich, politically connected Boston family of Irish-Catholics. He and his eight siblings enjoyed a privileged childhood of elite private schools, sailboats, servants, and summer homes. During his childhood and youth, “Jack” Kennedy suffered frequent serious illnesses. Nevertheless, he strove to make his own way, writing a best-selling book while still in college at Harvard University and volunteering for hazardous combat duty in the Pacific during World War II. Kennedy's wartime service made him a hero. After a short stint as a journalist, Kennedy entered politics, serving in the US House of Representatives from to and the US Senate from to
Kennedy was the youngest person elected US president and the first Roman Catholic to serve in that office. For many observers, his presidency came to represent the ascendance of youthful idealism in the aftermath of World War II. The promise of this energetic and telegenic leader
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Life of John F. Kennedy
Growing Up in the Kennedy Family
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, who was a very disciplined and organized woman, made the following entry on a notecard, when her second child was born:
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Born Brookline, Mass. (83 Beals Street) May 29,
In all, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy would have nine children, four boys and fem girls. She kept notecards for each of them in a small wooden file kartong and made a point of writing down everything from a doctor’s visit to the shoe storlek they had at a particular age. John Fitzgerald Kennedy was named in honor of Rose’s father, John Francis Fitzgerald, the Boston Mayor popularly known as Honey Fitz. Before long, family and friends called this small blue-eyed baby, Jack. Jack was not a very healthy baby, and Rose recorded on his notecard the childhood diseases from which he suffered, such as: "whooping cough, measles, chicken pox."
On February 20, when Jack was not yet three years old, he became si
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On November 22, , when he was hardly past his first thousand days in office, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was shot to death as his motorcade wound through Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was the youngest man elected president; he was the youngest to die.
Of Irish descent, he was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, son of financier Joseph Kennedy and his wife Rose, on May 29, Graduating from Harvard in , he entered the Navy. In , when his PT boat was rammed and sunk by a Japanese destroyer, Kennedy, despite injuries, led the survivors through perilous waters to safety.
Back from the war, he became a Democratic congressman from Boston, advancing in to the Senate. He married Jacqueline Bouvier on September 12, They had a daughter, Caroline, a son, John Jr., and another son, Patrick, who died soon after birth. In , while recuperating from a back operation, he wrote Profiles in Courage, which won the Pulitzer Prize for history.
In Kennedy almost gained the Democratic nomination for vice president,