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John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy was born of Irish descent in Brookline, Massachusetts on May 29, 1917.  He graduated from Harvard in 1940 and then entered the US Navy directly thereafter. 

 In 1943, when his PT boat was rammed and sunk by a Japanese destroyer, Kennedy led the survivors through perilous waters to safety, despite grave injuries that he had suffered in the attack.

Once he returned from duty in World War II, he became a congressman hailing from the Boston area.  In 1953 he would advance to the US Senate and would also marry his love Jacqueline Bouvier on September 12, 1953.  A couple of years later in 1955, he wrote "Profiles in Courage" while recovering from back surgery.  This was published and he received the Pulitzer Prize in the category of History.


During the 1956 Presidential campaign, he was almost nominated for Vice-President but lost out the nomination and would return to the US Senate as a senator from Massachusetts.

This would not be the last political battle for Kennedy as he would battle Richard Nixon for the Presidency in 1960.  The debates between Kennedy and Nixon were the first ones televised and millions of Americans watched this new facet of US Politics.  Kennedy won by a narrow margin, becoming the first Roman Catholic President elected in the United States and would also be noted as the youngest President of the United States.

His Inaugural Address is one of the most remembered by the American Public and has offered the memorable injunction: "Ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country." As President, he set out to redeem his campaign pledge to get America moving again. His economic programs launched the country on its longest sustained expansion since World War II and he made claims of the future that many people had only dreamed of as he laid plans for a massive assault on persisting pockets of privation and poverty.

Kennedy during his Inaugural Address Jan. 20, 1961

Responding to ever more urgent demands, he took vigorous action in the cause of equal rights, calling for new civil rights legislation. His vision of America extended to the quality of the national culture and the central role of the arts in a vital society.

He wished America to resume its old mission as the first nation dedicated to the revolution of human rights. With the Alliance for Progress and the Peace Corps, he brought American idealism to the aid of developing nations. But the hard reality of the Communist challenge remained.

Shortly after his inauguration, Kennedy permitted a band of Cuban exiles, already armed and trained, to invade their homeland. The attempt to overthrow the regime of Fidel Castro was a failure. Soon thereafter, the Soviet Union renewed its campaign against West Berlin. Kennedy replied by reinforcing the Berlin garrison and increasing the Nation's military strength, including new efforts in outer space. Confronted by this reaction, Moscow, after the erection of the Berlin Wall, relaxed its pressure in central Europe.

Instead, the Russians now sought to install nuclear missiles in Cuba. When this was discovered by air reconnaissance in October 1962, Kennedy imposed a quarantine on all offensive weapons bound for Cuba. While the world trembled on the brink of nuclear war, the Russians backed down and agreed to take the missiles away. The American response to the Cuban crisis evidently persuaded Moscow of the futility of nuclear blackmail.

President Kennedy signs the
Proclamation for Interdiction of the Delivery of
Offensive Weapons to Cuba at
the Oval Office on October 23, 1962.

Kennedy now contended that both sides had a vital interest in stopping the spread of nuclear weapons and slowing the arms race--a contention which led to the test ban treaty of 1963. The months after the Cuban crisis showed significant progress toward his goal of "a world of law and free choice, banishing the world of war and coercion." His administration thus saw the beginning of new hope for both the equal rights of Americans and the peace of the world.

Kennedy had chosen to visit Dallas on November 20 for three main reasons: to help raise more Democratic Party presidential campaign fund contributions in advance of the November 1964 presidential election; to begin his quest for re-election; and, as the Kennedy-Johnson ticket had barely won Texas (and had lost Dallas) in 1960, to mend political fences among several leading Texas Democratic Party members who appeared to be fighting politically amongst themselves.

President Kennedy's motorcade route through Dallas was planned to give him maximum exposure to Dallas crowds before his arrival, along with Vice-President Lyndon Johnson and Texas Governor John Connally, at a luncheon with civic and business leaders in that city. The White House staff informed the Secret Service that the President would arrive in Dallas via a short flight from Carswell Air Force Base in Fort Worth to Dallas Love Field airport.

Just before the assassination.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was assassinated at 12:30 p.m. Central Standard Time (18:30 UTC) on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas.  Kennedy was fatally shot by a sniper while traveling with his wife Jacqueline, Texas Governor John Connally, and Connally's wife Nellie, in a presidential motorcade.

A ten-month investigation from November 1963 to September 1964 by the Warren Commission concluded that Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone, and that Jack Ruby also acted alone when he killed Oswald before he could stand trial.

Kennedy had been in office for just-past his first thousand days in office and would also be noted as the youngest President to die in-office.

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