JFK Timeline

By: Courtney Brooks

June 1940
JFK graduates
with a bachelor of
science degree
from Harvard
University.

July 1940
JFKs senior thesis,
on english foreign
policy, is published
underneath the title
Why England Slept.

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At age 24, JFK was
sworn in to the
United States Navy.

March 1943
He was given
command of PT-109
as a lieutenant.

June 11, 1944

Awarded the Navy
and Marine Corps
medal and Purple
Heart for his actions
while in command of
PT-109.

March 1, 1945
Honorably
discharged from
the Navy with full
rank of a
lieutenant.

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Elected as a U.S.
representative for the
11th Congressional
District in Boston at
age 29. He is reelected in 1948 and
1950.

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Elected as senator
from Massachusetts
and re-elected in
1958.

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Married Jacqueline
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Newport, R.I.

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Undergoes surgery
for a back injury he
received during the
PT-109 incident.

August 17, 1956

Loses his bid for
the Democratic
nomination for
vice president.

August 23, 1956

The Kennedys
daughter,
Arabella, is
stillborn in
Newport, R.I.

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Caroline Bouvier
Kennedy is born
at Cornell Medical
Center in New
York.

January 2, 1960
Announces his
candidacy for
president of the
United States.

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Defeats Richard M.
Nixon to become the
35th president of the
United States. Kennedy
wins by a margin of
2/10 of 1 percent with
49.75% of the votes.

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John Fitzgerald
Kennedy Jr. is born
at Georgetown
University
Hospital.

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At the age of 43, he takes
the oath of office to
become the 35th
president of the United
States. He is the youngest
elected president and the
first president to be
Roman Catholic.

March 1, 1961
Signs a bill
creating the
Peace Corps.

June 1961
JFK and Nikita
Khrushchev hold a
summit in Vienna.

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Delivers a speech at
Rice University,
pledging that the
United States will
put a man on the
moon before the
end of this decade.

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Kennedy orders a
naval and air
quarantine on all
shipments of
weapons to Cuba.

August 7, 1963
The Kennedys
second son,
Patrick, is born
five weeks
premature.

August 9, 1963
Patrick dies
from being
born
prematurely.

October 7, 1963
Signs the
Nuclear Test Ban
Treaty in
Washington, D.C.

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JFK is scheduled
to visit Tampa,
Miami and several
cities in Texas in
the coming week.

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Arrives at MacDill Air Force
Base, Tampa. His first stop is
Al Lopez Field. He then
travels to the State Chamber
of Commerce meeting and
delivers another speech at a
meeting at the Fort Homer
Hesterly Armory. THen flies
to Miami and returns to
Washington late in the
evening.

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Sends a presidential
statement to be
read at the
Centennial
Ceremony in
Gettysburg National
Military Park.

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Kennedy begins his
tour of Texas. His
destinations are
San Antonio,
Houston, Fort
Worth, Dallas and
Austin.

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
if shot at 12:30 p.m.
while riding in an opentop limousine in a
motorcade through
downtown Dallas. He is
pronounced dead at 1
p.m. at Parkland
Memorial Hospital.

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JFK is buried in
Arlington National
Cemetery with his
son Patrick and his
daughter Arabella.