john f. kennedy
John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born on May 29th, 1917 in Brookline, Massachusetts. John was the second of nine children born to Joseph Patrick and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy. He was brought up in a family that demanded intense physical and intellectual competition among the children and he was taught in the teachings of the Roman Catholic church and the political precepts of the Democratic Party. He graduated from Harvard University, and he published the best-seller "Why England Slept". For six months he then served as a secretary to his father, who was the U.S. ambassador of Great Britain.JFK joined the navy in 1941, and he was sent to the South Pacific two years later. As a matter of fact, he escaped death in battle, and he was later on awarded the Navy and U.S. Marine Corps medal for heroism. His back, which bothered him since he was a teenager, continued to trouble him for the rest of his life. By the end of the war, his brother Joe, who was expected to be the first Kennedy to run for office, had been killed in the war. Now the family's political expectations passed on to John, who had originally planned to carry out an journalistic or academic career. He was expected to run for office and to win, which he did
Kennedy's administration's first foreign affair was the with Cuba. The Joint Chiefs recommended to send an armed force to Cuba, and start an uprising against leader Fidel Castro, but the invasion was a failure. All the men were either killed or captured. He took all the responsibility upon himself. The Soviet premier, Nikita Khrushchev, thought he was supreme of Kennedy, when he ordered a wall built between East and West Berlin. Kennedy activated National Guard, and Khrushchev backed out. Later on, a certain amount of short- and intermediate-range nuclear missiles. Kennedy ordered these to be dismantled. He ordered a blockade of Cuba that would stop ships from travelling to the island. For 13 days, a war seemed near, but the Soviet premier announced the withdraw of the weapons. JFK believed that his Republican opponent in 1964 would be Sen. Barry Goldwater. To represent a unity among the Democrats, he toured Texas with his to fellow Democrats, Gov. John Connally Jr. and Sen. Ralph Yarborough. On Friday, November 22, 1963, he ans his wife were in a motorcade riding slowly through Dallas when a sniper opened fire. Two bullets struck the president, and by the arrival at "Parkland Memorial Hospital", he was dead. Vice President Johnson took for Kennedy. A 24-year-old Dallas citizen, was accused for the murder, but he was shot by local night club owner, Jack Ruby. In 1979 a special committee of the U.S. House of Representatives concluded that Oswald not the only gunman involved. It might have been a conspiracy which include figures from organized crime. Today,
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