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John F Kennedy Biography

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President John F Kennedy John F. Kennedy was the 35th President of the United States. His Presidential term was from January 20th 1961-November 22nd 1963 OnThisDay.com. (2000). He is known as one of the youngest presidents elected at age 43 and whose term in office included The Cuban Missile Crisis, The Civil Rights Movement in the US and the Space Race also he was assassinated in 1963 OnThisDay.com. (2000). On Tuesday May 29th 1917 in Brookline, Massachusetts John F Kennedy was born to his mother Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald and his father Joseph Kennedy Sr. He was the second oldest in a group of nine siblings (Biography.com editors). Both his parents came from wealthy families, the Fitzgeralds and Kennedys were prominent Irish Catholic Boston …show more content…

Attorney General and Ted Kennedy one of the most powerful senators in American History (Biography.com editors). All of the Kennedy children have a close and supportive relationship that they have kept throughout their entire lives (Biography.com editors). Kennedys parents Joseph and Rose focused on their children’s education, his father was obsessed over every detail of his kids’ lives which is considered a rarity for a father at that time (Biography.com editors). His father had great expectations for his children and instilled the belief that winning was everything. John F Kennedy bought into his father’s philosophy that winning was everything (Biography.com editors). As a young boy Kennedy wasn’t the best student he was a mischievous boy who attended a Catholic boys boarding school in Connecticut called Canterbury (Biography.com …show more content…

Near the end of 1963 Kennedy sent a civil rights bill to Congress, Kennedy’s bill eventually passed as the landmark Civil Rights Act in 1964 (Biography.com editors). In November 1963, President Kennedy flew to Dallas, Texas for a campaign appearance. While driving through the crowd the next day November 22 in a convertible a warehouse worker named Lee Harvey Oswald, a former Marine with Soviet sympathies fired shots hitting the president twice where he later died at Parkland Memorial Hospital at age 46 (Biography.com

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