JFK History
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was the 35th president of the United States. He was the youngest man and the first Roman Catholic ever elected to the presidency. Rich, handsome, elegant, and articulate, he aroused great admiration at home and abroad. His term of office as president was too short, however, to say what his place in history might have been Kennedy was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, on May 29, 1917. His father, Joseph P. Kennedy was a businessman who became a multimillionaire, head of the Securities and Exchange Commission, and ambassador to Great Britain. Kennedy graduated from Choate School in Wallingford, Connecticut. He then briefly attended Princeton University, and then entered Harvard University in 1936. At Harvard he wrote an honors thesis on British foreign policies in the 1930s. It was published in 1940, the year he graduated, under the title Why In 1941, shortly before the United States entered World War II, Kennedy joined the U.S. Navy. He attended a school to learn about the Patrol Torpedo boat. Kennedy was sent to the islands of the South Pacific Ocean where he was in charge of a Torpedo boat,
Harding, the president who had first appointed Hoover. This faith in activism was to become a hallmark of his presidency. The boat had been in battle and and it was dirty. The couple had three children: Caroline Bouvier, John Fitzgerald Junior, and a second son who died at birth in August 1963. The PT boats waited for dark so they wouldn't be seen. climbed up on the half of the boat that was floating and helped people up into the the boat. Then in an instant the PT 109 was hit by an enemy's torpedo. In 1956, Kennedy tryed unsuccessfully for the Democratic vice-presidential nomination. They finally found some people that took them to meet with eleven men of the PT 109. It was Sinatra who first introduced Exner to Kennedyin 1960. Many people still remember excatly what they were doing the moment they heard of his death. After that, he set his sights on the presidency, especially after his re-election to the Senate in 1958. Slowly the PT 109 rode the black waves and every man of the crew listened.
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