John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born on May 29th, 1917 and died 
            
 on November the 22nd, 1963.  He was the thirty-fifth President of the
            
 United States, and was assassinated in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey
            
 Oswald as his limousine drove by the Texas School Book Depository
            
 building and through Dealey Plaza.  He was in office from 1961-1963, 
            
 he was the youngest man elected President, and the youngest to die in
            
 the office.  Of Irish descent, he was born in Brookline, Massachusetts. He
            
 graduated from Harvard University in 1940 and he entered the navy. 
            
 	In 1943, he became commander of a PT boat in the Pacific in World
            
 War II.  In action off the Solomon Islands, his boat was sheared in two
            
 and sunk, and Kennedy was credited with saving the life of at least one
            
 of his crew.  After the war he was briefly a journalist.  He became a
            
 congressmen from Massachusetts in 1947 until 1953.  He consistently
            
 supported the domestic programs of the Truman Administration but
            
 	In 1952, despite the Eisenhower Landslide, he defeated Henry
            
 Cabot Lodge for a seat in the United States Senate, where he served on
            
 the labor and Public Committee and on the Foreign Relations 
            
 	 In 1953, Kennedy married Jacklyn Lee Bouvier.  While
            
 recuperating in 1955 from a serious operation to repair a spinal injury,
            
 he wrote Profiles in Courage, which won the Pulitzer Prize in history.
            
 In 1956 Kennedy almost gained the Democratic Nomination for
            
 Vice-President, four years later was a  first ballot nominee for President.
            
 Millions watched his television debates with the Republican candidate,
            
 Richard M. Nixon.  Winning by narrow margin in the popular vote,
            
 Kennedy became the  first Roman Catholic President.  His Inaugural
            
 Address offered the memorable injunction:  "Ask not what your country
            
 can do for you--ask what you can do for your country."  As President, he
            
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