John+F.+Kennedy

= John F. Kennedy = toc

John F. Kennedy (JFK or Jack) was in office from 1961-1963. He was born in Brookline, Massachusetts on May 29, 1917. In 1943, His Vice President was Lyndon B. Jonhson, and he was the 35th president of the United States. He attended Harvard in 1936 were his oldest brother Joe was already a student. After he graduated Harvard he joined the Navy in 1940. He was one of four boys and had five sisters. On November 22, 1963 he was assassined in Dallas,TX. He was there to campagin for a second term. He was the youngest president and the youngest to be assassined. He was buried at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA

Early Life
Jack was not a healthy child, and was often sick. On February 20, 1920, when he was not yet three years old, Jack became sick with scarlet fever, a highly contagious and potentially life threatening disease. His father, Joseph Patrick Kennedy, was afraid his son would die and he went to the hospital everyday to be with his son. When Jack was a child his family would joke and say that if a mosquito bit him it was sure to die because he was always so sick.Before Jack was president he  was an author, U.S. Navy officer, Journalist and a Public Offical. He wrote book called //Profiles in Courage// and it won a Pulitzer Prize. He married Jacqueline Lee Bouvier, and had three children.


JFK addressed the treaty to the nation and told them about the terms about how no one could test bombs underwater, on the ground, or in the atmo sphere but only underground. He read a speech to the nation about the terms and some Americans did not like these terms. They wanted no testing of bombs period not just underground. JFK signed the treaty in August 1963 along with the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union.

 Civil Rights
JFK signed the Presidential Commission on the Status of Women in 1961. Commission statistics revealed that women, not just blacks, were discriminated. Their final report documenting legal and cultural barriers was issued in October 1963, just about a month before he was assassinated. June 11, 1963, JFK intervened when the Governor of Alabama, George Wallace, blocked the doors of the University of Alabama to stop two African American students from enrolling. Governor Wallace moved aside after being confronted by federal marshals. The evening Wallace was confronted JFK gave his famous civil rights address on national radio and TV. JFK proposed what would soon become the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">The Bay of Pigs Invasion
<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">The Bay of Pigs Invasion was an unsuccessful attempt by U.S.-backed Cuban exiles to overthrow the dictator Fidel Castro. The invasion lasted from April 17- April 19, 1961. The CIA and the Cuban exiles were the people who went to Cuba to try to overthrow their goverment. We lost the fight and did not take over their goverment. This made the U.S. look bad as well as JFK. It made us look bad because we were acting like the Communists, which we were "fighting" against, by trying to put a "president" that we wanted in to another country.

JFK's Death
JFK died on November 22, 1963. He was assassinat ed in Dallas, TX while he was campagning for a second term. Everyone was shocked when they found out he was assassined. He was shot in the head and the left shoulder. He was sitting next to his wife when he was shot and a secret sirvece agent herd her say, "I have a piece of his brain in my hand!" There were three shots fired, and they were fired from the sixth floor window at the southeast corner of the Texas School Book Depository. He was the youngest president and the youngest to be assassined. He was buried at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA.

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