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BIRTH
John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born on May 29th 1917 in Brookline, Massachusetts.
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CHILDHOOD
Kennedy lived in Brookline for the first ten years of his life and attended the local church of St. Aidan, where he was baptized on June 19, 1917. He was educated at the Edward Devotion School in Brookline, in the vicinity of Noble and Greenough Lower. Dedham, Massachusetts and the Dexter School up to the fourth grade. In September of 1927, the family moved from Brookline to Riverdale, Bronx, New York. -
EDUCATION
In 1940 he completed his thesis, "Appeasement in Münich", on the participation of the United Kingdom in the Munich Accords. Initially he wanted his thesis to be private, but his father persuaded him to publish it in a book. He graduated cum laude at Harvard with a degree in international relations in June 1940, and in July of the same year his thesis was published with the title Why England Slept that became a best seller. -
Military Service
In the spring of 1941 he volunteered for the United States Army but was rejected mainly for his column problems. However, in September of that year the Navy of the United States accepted it, due to the influence of the director of the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) -
DECORATIONS
Some of the decorations of Kennedy in the Second World War were the Purple Heart, the Asia-Pacific Campaign Medal and the Victory Medal of the Second World War. He was honorably discharged early in 1945 a few months before the Japanese surrender. -
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Representation
Kennedy represented the state of Massachusetts as a member of the House of Representatives from 1947 to 1953. Then, as a senator, from 1953 until he assumed the Presidency in 1961 -
MARRIAGE
Kennedy married Jacqueline Lee Bouvier on September 12, 1953. She was the first Lady of the sun-killed during the time that Kennedy ruled until his murder -
Beginning of his political career
In 1956, the presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson left in the hands of the Democratic Party Convention the nomination of a candidate for the vice-presidency of the United States. UU Kennedy finished second in the voting, overtaken by Senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee. Thanks to this episode and in spite of its defeat, Kennedy acquired national notoriety, which would help him in the following years. -
CANDIDACY
With 43 years, was the presidential candidate of the Democratic Party in 1960, defeated Richard Nixon in one of the tightest presidential votes. Kennedy had been the last person to be elected to the position of senator. He has also been the only Catholic president of the United States. -
Elected as president
John F. Kennedy was elected in 1960 as the 35th presidents of the United States, Kennedy became the youngest president of his country, after Theodore Roosevelt. -
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PRESIDENCY
John F. Kennedy was sworn in as the 35th president of the United States on January 20, 1961. In his inaugural address24 he spoke of the need for US citizens to be more active, pronouncing one of his most famous phrases: "No ask what your country can do for you; Ask what you can do for your country. " -
DEATH
He was murdered on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas 2, a crime for which Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested, murdered two days later by Jack Ruby, so they could not put him on trial.
