John Fitzgerald Kennedy
John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born of May 29, 1917 and was the second son of nine children of Joseph Patrick Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy. The ancestors before him were of Wayford County in Ireland. John F. Kennedy's father served as first chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission and a US ambassador to Great Britain during Franklin D. Roosevelts administration. His mother was the daughter of John F. Fitzgerald who was also a political figure. John F. Kennedy attended elementary schools in Brookline and Riverdale, Massachusetts until the age of thirteen. After that, he was sent to the Canterbury School in New Milford, Connecticut. Later, he transferred to the Choate Academy in Wallingford, Connecticut and graduated at eighteen. For a short period of time, he attended he attended college at Princeton but left because he had developed a case of page 3 jaundice. In 1936, he enrolled in Harvard and majored in international relations and in government. After graduating in 1940, he enrolled in the Stanford University graduate business school and dropped out six months later. Soon after, he joined the navy. Kennedy ran for the US House of Representatives in 1946 and took his seat in Congress in 1947
One of the major problems happening in the US during Kennedy's administration was the demand for equal rights for blacks. In 1961, a group of blacks and whites went to Montgomery, Alabama to test segregation laws. After riots broke out, US Marshals were sent in to set things back in order. A year later, James Meridith enrolled at the University of Mississippi and became the first black to study there. Soon after his enrollment, riots broke out and President Kennedy ordered three-thousand federal troops to restore order. Two people were killed during page 5 the riots. In 1963, more riots and protests broke out in different areas of the country. Kennedy asked Congress to pass legislation for civil rights laws. Two major foreign problems were the Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban missile crisis. In 1961, Cuban exiles invaded Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. They were promised military aid from the US by President Kennedy refused to give them any. Fidel Castro's forces stopped the invasion easily and captured the exiles. Most of them were later exchanged for US nonmilitary supplies. The Cuban missile crisis happened in 1962. Cuban leaders were afraid that the US would attack so they asked the US
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