President Timeline

  • Family

    Family
    Rose Kennedy(Mother), Joseph P. Kennedy(Father), Joseph Kennedy jr. (Bother), Rosemary(Sister), Eunice Kennedy(Sister), Jacqueline Kennedy(Spouse), JFK Jr.(Son), Robert Kennedy(Brother), Edward Kennedy(Brother), Caroline Kennedy(Daughter), Patrick Kennedy(Brother), Arabella Kennedy(Daughter), Jean Kennedy(Sister), Kathleen Cavendish(Sister), Patricia Kennedy(Sister)
  • Birth

    Birth
    John F. Kennedy was born in May, of 1917.
  • Early Life

    Early Life
    JFK spent his earliest childhood in Brook-line, where he and his brother Joe Jr. attended the prestigious Noble and Greenough Lower School, which was filled with the sons of white, Protestant families who had kept the Kennedy's and Fitzgerald's out of Boston's country clubs for years.
  • Further Education

    Further Education
    Kennedy graduated from Choate in 1935 and went on to eventually attend Harvard after spending some time in London and at Princeton.​
  • Employment

    Employment
    John F. Kennedy served in the U.S. Navy during World War II.
  • Politics

    Politics
    John F. Kennedy represented the Massachusetts 11th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives for three terms (1947–53), served two terms as a U.S. senator for Massachusetts (1953–60)
  • Presidency

    Presidency
    John F. Kennedy was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States in January 1961.
  • Legacy

    Legacy
    "President Kennedy inspired a generation to accept responsibility for its government, and its world, by taking political and social action. As president, he fought to ensure equal rights and opportunities for all Americans. He encouraged Americans to lift up those less fortunate than themselves, both at home and abroad. He challenged the nation to reach for the impossible and land a man on the moon before the end of the decade."
  • Assassination

    Assassination
    John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was assassinated on Friday, November 22, 1963, at 12:30 p.m. Central Standard Time in Dallas, Texas, while riding in a presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza.
  • Death

    Death
    John F. Kennedy died because of an assassination on November 22nd, in 1963. There are conspiracy theories that "The Umbrella Man" or Louie Steven Witt is the man who had killed JFK, because he was standing in the exact spot where shots had fired.