John F. Kennedy was one of the most liked and dedicated
presidents of the United States of America. His presidency ran
The second of nine children, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was
born in a three story wooden house on May 29, 1917; in Brooklyn,
Massachusetts. His parents were Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose
Joseph Kennedy intended for his sons to receive the finest
private school education possible. Johns education started
at a private Dexter school in Brookline. During fourth,
fifth, and sixth grades John enrolled at Riverdale Country Day
School. At the age of thirteen, John entered the Canterbury
School in Milford, Connecticut.
The spring of 1931, John suffered an attack of
appendicitis. He had to stay home and rest for the remainder
of the school year. Kennedy's' parents decided to hire a tutor
to help him catch-up during the summer. John passed Math,
English, and Latin. When he finally recovered completely, he
entered Choate, a fine prep school in Wallingford, Connecticut.
When John graduated from Choate, in 1935, he planned to
study for a year at Londons School of Economics. Then at
eighteen years old, John came down with an illness called
Jaundice. In the fall, John joined his friends, Lem Billings
and Rip Horton at Princeton University. He later had another
attack of Jaundice that forced him to miss school for one
semester. Johns father then encouraged his son to enter Harvard
University in the fall of 1936. John graduated from Harvard
in 1940, with a degree in Political Science. He then entered
Stanford University in California. While there he studied
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