John Kennedy 29 05 1917 — 22 10

John Kennedy (29. 05. 1917 - 22. 10. 1963) 35 th President of the United States.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born on 29 May 1917 in Brookline, Massachusetts. He was the second child in the family of Rose Fitzgerald and Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. His mother was a child of John Fitzgerald who was a mayor of Boston. While living in Brookline John Kennedy studied at different schools through 4 th grade. In 1929 after moving to Bronxville, New York Kennedy studied at Riverdale Country School. In 1931 Kennedy was operated on his for appendicitis and as a result he came back home. His family also had home in Palm Beach, Florida and in Hyannisport, Massachusetts where John also spent a lot of time.

For the 9 th through 12 th grade Kennedy attended The Choate School in Wallingford, Connecticut where his brother studied. While at Choate Kennedy’s behavior was bad. The notorious stunts of Kennedy and his friends made him famous. They called themselves “The Muckers Club”. While studying Kennedy had problems with his health and in 1934 he was hospitalized. The same year his illness was diagnosed as colitis. A year later he graduated from Choate.

In 1936 Kennedy entered Harvard College. From 1937 to 1939 he tripped to different countries including France, the Soviet Union, the Middle East, the Balkans, Czechoslovakia and Germany. While at Harvard Kennedy became interested in political philosophy. His thesis was about British participation in the Munich Agreement entitled “Appeasement in Munich”. This work was a great success. In 1940 Kennedy graduated from Harvard College.

In September 1941, after medical disqualification by the Army for his chronic lower back problems, Kennedy joined the U. S. Navy with the influence of the director of the Office of Naval Intelligence, former naval attaché to Joseph Kennedy. [Kennedy was anensign serving in the office of the Secretary of the Navy when the attack on Pearl Harbor occurred. He attended the Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps and then voluntarily entered the Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Training Center in Melville, Rhode Island. His first command was PT-101, which he briefly commanded from December 7, 1942 until February 23, 1943. He led three Huckins PT boats— PT-98, PT-99, and PT-101, which were being relocated from MTBRON 4 in Melville, Rhode Island, back to Jacksonville, Florida and the new MTBRON 14 (formed February 17, 1943). During the transit South, he was briefly hospitalized after diving in the cold water to unfoul a propeller. Thereafter, he was assigned duty in Panama and later in the Pacific theater, where Kennedy earned the rank of lieutenant, eventually commanding two more patrol torpedo (PT) boats.

On August 2, 1943, Kennedy's boat, the PT-109, along with the PT-162 and the PT-169, was performing nighttime patrols near New Georgia in the Solomon Islands, when PT-109 was rammed by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri. Kennedy gathered his surviving crew members together in the water around the wreckage, to vote on whether to "fight or surrender". Kennedy stated, "There's nothing in the book about a situation like this. A lot of you men have families and some of you have children. What do you want to do? I have nothing to lose. " Shunning surrender, the men swam towards a small island.

Between 1947 and 1953 after military service John Kennedy represented Massachusetts's 11 th congressional district in the U. S. House of Representatives as a democrat. For the next seven years he served in the U. S. Senate. In January 1960 Kennedy initiated his presidential campaign. Nine months later Republican candidate Richard Nixon and John Kennedy appeared in televised presidential debates which were the first in U. S. history. Kennedy’s opponent looked strung and diffident during the debates. Moreover Nixon’s leg was injured. At the same time John Kennedy was relaxed. From that time television became an integral part of politics.

Congressional career and presidential election In 1961 John Kennedy became the 35 th President of the USA. There were a lot of important historical events during Kennedy’s presidency including the African American Civil Rights Movement, the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the building of the Berlin Wall, the Space Race, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and early stages of the Vietnam War. It should be noted that Kennedy was the only Catholic president in U. S. history. In his inaugural address he spoke of the need for all Americans to be active citizens, famously saying, "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country. " He asked the nations of the world to join together to fight what he called the "common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself".

On November 22, 1963 John Kennedy was killed in Dallas, Texas. The assassin was Lee Harvey Oswald who was also killed in two days.

John Kennedy because great person. I admire He made a great contribution to his country