BIOGRAPHY OF JOHN F.

KENNEDY

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YESSICA PAILA MALLARINO

LUIS ALEJANDRO TINOCO

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the son of Joseph Patrick Kennedy and Rose
Fitzgerald, was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, on 29th May, 1917. His great
grandfather, Patrick Kennedy, had emigrated from Ireland in 1849 and his
grandfathers, Patrick Joseph Kennedy and John Francis Fitzgerald, were
important political figures in Boston. Kennedy's father was a highly successful
businessman who later served as ambassador to Great Britain (1937-40).
In 1940 Kennedy graduated from Harvard University with a science degree. The
same year saw the publication of Why England Slept (1940), a book on foreign
policy. He joined the United States Navy in 1941 and became an intelligence
officer. After the United States entered the Second World War, Kennedy was
transferred to the Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron where he was given command
of a PT boat.
He was a very important president of the U.S, and make significant changes in
this country.
 JOHN F. KENNEDY

John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born on May 29, 1917, to Rose Fitzgerald
(aka Rose Kennedy and Joseph P. Kennedy. John was named after his
maternal grandfather, John "HoneyFitz" Fitzgerald, the mayor of Boston. John
was very ill as a child and was given the last rites five times, the first one being
when he was a newbornn.

He was the second of four boys born to an Irish Catholic family with nine
children: Joseph Jr., John,Robert F. Kennedy (called Bobby), and Ted
Kennedy (born Edward). Because Rose made Joe and Jack (the name his
family called him) wear matching clothes, they fought a lot for attention.

When John was young, the family moved from Boston to New York. John went
to Choate, a private school. Most of the time, though, he was too sick to attend.
In the late 1930s, father Joe became the ambassador to England. He took sons
John and Robert with him, as well as his wife and daughters Kathleen
and Rosemary Kennedy. John went to Princeton, then Harvard, and for his
senior thesis, he wrote a piece about why England refused to get into the war
until late. It was published in 1940 and called "Why England Slept". His older
brother Joe was a pilot during the war, and was killed when the bombs his plane
was carrying exploded. Not long after that, John's sister Kathleen and her
husband died in a plane crash. In the early 1950s, John ran for Congress in
Massachusetts and won.

He married Jacqueline Kennedy (thirteen years his junior, born Jacqueline Lee
Bouvier) on September 12, 1953. He became a father rather late in life. Their
first child, Caroline Kennedy, was born on November 27, 1957 when JFK was
40 and their son, John Kennedy Jr., was born on November 25, 1960 when JFK
was 43. They had a son named Patrick Bouvier, but he died a few days after
birth. In 1954, JFK had to have back surgery and in the hospital wrote his
second book, "Profiles in Courage". His father always said that his son Joe was
going to be President of the US; when he died in World War II, though, that task
was passed on to John. He ran for president in 1960 against Richard Nixon and
won. His administration had many conflicts, the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban
Missile Crisis being key examples. In November 1963, he and Jackie (his wife's
nickname) went on a trip to Texas. Everywhere they went there were signs
saying "Jack and Jackie." On November 22, 1963, John was to give a speech in
Dallas, but on his way an assassin hidden on the sixth floor of the Texas School
Book Depository opened fire at Kennedy, who was riding in an open car. Hit
twice and severely wounded, Kennedy died in a local hospital at 1:00 pm. The
alleged assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, was captured a short time later after
shooting and killing a Dallas policeman, and was himself assassinated before
he could be thoroughly interrogated, let alone tried. In just a little bit of irony,
considering the death of Abraham Lincoln 100 years earlier, Kennedy was shot
in a Ford Lincoln (Lincoln was in Ford's Theater when he was shot). He was laid
to rest on his son's third birthday.

Everywhere they went there were signs saying "Jack and Jackie." On
November 22, 1963, John was to give a speech in Dallas, but on his way an
assassin hidden on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository opened
fire at Kennedy, who was riding in an open car. Hit twice and severely wounded,
Kennedy died in a local hospital at 1:00 pm. The alleged assassin, Lee Harvey
Oswald, was captured a short time later after shooting and killing a Dallas
policeman, and was himself assassinated before he could be thoroughly
interrogated, let alone tried. In just a little bit of irony, considering the death of
Abraham Lincoln 100 years earlier, Kennedy was shot in a Ford Lincoln (Lincoln
was in Ford's Theater when he was shot). He was laid to rest on his son's third
birthday.