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,

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