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transfered to Harvard
After graduating from Choate and spending one semester at Princeton, Kennedy transferred to Harvard
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Navy Ship Wreck
Shortly after graduating from Harvard, Kennedy joined the U.S. Navy and was assigned to command a patrol torpedo boat in the South Pacific. On August 2, 1943, his boat, PT-109, was rammed by a Japanese warship and split in two.
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Joseph Kennedy Jr.
Kennedy's older brother, Joseph Kennedy Jr., who had also joined the Navy, was not so fortunate. A pilot, he died when his plane blew up in August 1944 -
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Married Jacqueline Lee Bouvier
Jacqueline Lee Bouvier his wife
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nominated canidate for presidency
by the Democratic party
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Elected into Office
35th President of the United states, also the youngest to be president.
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Cuban Missle Crisis
Early on Tuesday 16 October 1962, John F Kennedy's national security assistant, McGeorge Bundy, brought to the President's bedroom some high-altitude photographs taken from U-2 planes flying over Cuba. They showed Soviet soldiers hurriedly and secretly setting up nuclear-armed missiles.
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Died
John F Kennedy was assasinated Nivember 22, 1963 in dallas texas by Lee Harvey Oswald.
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