Life of John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Life of John Fitzgerald Kennedy
John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born in Brookline, Massachusetts on May 29, 1917. He graduated from Harvard in 1940. Once he graduated from Harvard, he followed in his brother‘s footsteps and joined the Navy. He was the captain of the famous PT 109 during World War II. The PT 109 was famous because a Japanese destroyer in hostile territory rammed it. Then John Kennedy led the remaining members of the crew to islands whose only inhabitants were spotters.
JFK came home from the war he became a Democratic Congressman from the Boston area. He became a member of the Senate in 1953. On September 12, 1953 he married Jacqueline Bouvier. John F. Kennedy had chronic back pains all his life. While recuperating from a back surgery in 1955, he wrote the book Profiles in Courage, and won a Pulitzer Prize in history. In 1956 JFK almost won the Democratic Vice President Nominee. In 1960 he was the Democratic Presidential Candidate. Kennedy won the popular vote by a tiny margin, but the Republican, Richard Nixion, did not call for a recount. JFK was the first Roman Catholic president ever elected.
John F. Kennedy delivered the famous line: “I call upon all Americans to ask not what your county can do for you, ask what you can do for your country” in his inaugural speech. Not long after he had taken office JFK permitted a band of Cuban exiles to invade their homeland and overthrow Castro. The plan didn’t work. After the Bay of Pigs invasion, the Soviet Union started placing missile silos on Cuba. Kennedy enforced a naval blockade around Cuba in attempt to keep the Soviets from bringing in more missiles. The world held their breath as the leaders of the two biggest superpowers on Earth stood eye to eye. The Soviets eventually backed down and agreed to remove weapons from Cuba. That was known as the Cuban missile crisis.
While in the United States John Kennedy was redeeming his promise to get America moving again. He worked to promote equal rights in America. He continued the American ideal of the revolution of civil rights. JFK also provided aide for developing nations. In August of 1963, JFK was campaigning in Dallas, Texas. While riding in his limousine he was shot twice by Lee Harvey Oswald. He died at a local hospital....