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JOHN F. KENNEDY’S EARLY LIFE
John F, Kennedy, was born in Brookline Massachusetts -
JOHN F. KENNEDY AMBASSADOR
John F. Kennedy, was named. V.S. ambassador to Great Britain -
JOHN F. KENNEDY HARVARD
He was a student of Harvard, and he wrote his Thesis, that some years later, was published as "Why England Slept" -
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John F. Kennedy in the Navy Marine
He was a command of a Patrol Torped; and was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal for heroism. -
John F. Kennedy Brother died
His older brother, Joe Jr., was not so fortunate: He was killed in August 1944 when his Navy airplane exploded on a secret mission against a German rocket-launching site. -
John F. Kennedy in Boston
He was back in Boston preparing for a run for Congress. -
JOHN F. KENNEDY CONGRESS
He was back in Boston preparing for a congress -
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JOHN F. KENNEDY SENNATE
The Senate, defeating the popular Republican incumbent Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. -
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JOHN F. KENNEDY WEDDING
On September 12, 1953, Kennedy married the beautiful socialite and journalist Jacqueline (Jackie) Lee Bouvier. -
John F. Kennedy's Senate career
John F. Kennedy's Senate career got off to a rocky start when he refused to condemn Senator Joseph McCarthy, a personal friend of the Kennedy family whom the Senate voted to censure in 1954 for his relentless pursuit of suspected communists. -
JOHN F. KENNEDY BOOK
Jack wrote another best-selling book, “Profiles in Courage,” which won the Pulitzer Prize for biography. -
KENNEDY’S ROAD TO PRESIDENCY
Kennedy announced his candidacy for president on January 2, 1960. He defeated a primary challenge from the more liberal Hubert Humphrey and chose the Senate majority leader, Lyndon Johnson of Texas, as his running mate. -
Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev
Kennedy met with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in Vienna to discuss the city of Berlin, which had been divided after World War II between Allied and Soviet control. -
JOHN F. KENNEDY PRESIDENT
the new president called on His fellow Americans to work together in the pursuit of progress and the elimination of poverty , But Also in the battle to win the ongoing Cold War Against Communism around the world . -
JOHN F. KENNEDY’S PLAN
Kennedy approved the plan to send 1,400 CIA-trained Cuban exiles in an amphibious landing at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba. Intended to spur a rebellion that would overthrow the communist leader Fidel Castro, the mission ended in failure, with nearly all of the exiles captured or killed. -
John F. Kennedy blockade of Cuba
After learning that the Soviet Union was constructing a number of nuclear and long-range missile sites in Cuba that could pose a threat to the continental United States, Kennedy announced a naval blockade of Cuba. -
John F. Kennedy Support
Kennedy sent an army convoy to reassure West Berliners of U.S. support, and would deliver one of his most famous speeches in West Berlin. -
John F. Kennedy won
Kennedy won his greatest foreign affairs victory when Khrushchev agreed to join him and Britain’s Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in signing a nuclear test ban treaty. -
John F. Kennedy Dead
the president and his wife landed in Dallas; he had spoken in San Antonio, Austin and Fort Worth the day before. From the airfield, the party then traveled in a motorcade to the Dallas Trade Mart, the site of Jack’s next speaking engagement. Shortly after 12:30 p.m., as the motorcade was passing through downtown Dallas, shots rang out; Kennedy was struck twice, in the neck and head, and was pronounced dead shortly after arriving at a nearby hospital. -
John F. Kennedy Possible causes of death
Almost immediately, alternative theories of Kennedy’s assassination emerged–including conspiracies run by the KGB, the Mafia and the U.S. military-industrial complex, among others.
