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Early Life
Born on May 29, 1917, in Brookline, Massachusetts, John F. Kennedy -
Commander in World War II
The two officers and ten soldiers under his command shared with him many successes fighting the Japanese. But on August 2, 1943, while serving a mission for which he had volunteered, he boarded a Japanese destroyer in the middle of the night and left the patrol boat in half. -
John F.Kennedy, Beginnings in politics
Abandoning plans to be a journalist, Jack left the Navy by the end of 1944. Less than a year later, he was back in Boston preparing for a run for Congress in 1946. -
80th Congress
He entered the 80th Congress in January 1947, at the age of 29, and immediately attracted attention (as well as some criticism from older members of the Washington establishment) for his youthful appearance and relaxed, informal style. -
House of Representatives
Kennedy won reelection to the House of Representatives in 1948 and 1950, and in 1952 ran successfully for the Senate, defeating the popular Republican incumbent Henry Cabot Lodge Jr -
A meteoric political career
The highlight of this first stage of his political life was his outspoken support all international aid: the loan granted to Britain, the aid to Greece and Turkey, the Marshall Plan and other related measures. -
Kennedy at the Democratic convention
In 1949 he surprised with a hostile US policy speech held in China, because of which, he said, the United States had lost the ability to get a non-communist China. -
Senator
In April 1952, at thirty-five, his father urged him to stand for senator from the state of Massachusetts. -
Married
On September 12, 1953, Kennedy married the beautiful socialite and journalist Jacqueline (Jackie) Lee Bouvier. Two years later, he was forced to undergo a painful operation on his back. While recovering from the surgery, Jack wrote another best-selling book, “Profiles in Courage,” which won the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 1957. -
Kennedy´s Road To Presidency
After nearly earning his party’s nomination for vice president in 1956, 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. In the general election, Kennedy faced a difficult battle against his Republican opponent, Richard Nixon, a two-term vice president under the popular Dwight D. Eisenhower. -
Inaugural Address
Kennedy lent an unmistakable aura of youth and glamour to the White House. In his inaugural address, given 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. -
Kennedy's Foreign Policy Challenges
An early crisis in the foreign affairs arena occurred in April 1961, when 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. -
Kennedy signs the order naval blockade Cuba
Regarding the USSR, Kennedy tried a certain approach that was displayed in June 1961 in the interview with Nikita Khrushchev held in Vienna. But the invasion abortive Bay of Pigs, the erection of the Berlin Wall and, above all, the discovery of a nuclear missile base in Cuba load installed by the Soviets broke off negotiations. -
Popular President
Kennedy was an enormously popular president, both at home and abroad, and his family drew famous comparisons to King Arthur's court at Camelot. -
Cuba Missile crisis
Kennedy clashed again with Khrushchev in October 1962 during the Cuban missile crisis. 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 -
Kennedy´s Leadership At Home
Kennedy was slow to commit himself to the civil rights cause, but was eventually forced into action, sending federal troops to support the desegregation of the University of Mississippi after riots there left two dead and many others injured. -
Kennedy in a speech on Civil Rights
His program, liberal, was mainly based on the economic recovery, improving management, diversification of the means of defense and the establishment of a partnership for the development of the Americas. -
Kennedy and Jacqueline moments before the murder
In 1963, Kennedy began preparing the ground for the next election and began a tour of various cities. On November 22, 1963 John Kennedy and his wife, followed by Vice President Lyndon Johnson, entered Dallas. It was part of his campaign in the country loath area overlooking reelection in 1964. -
Kennedy's funeral
According to the Warren report, the author of the assassination was Lee Harvey Oswald, who from the top of a building shot with a repeating rifle with a telescopic sight. However, they subsisted serious doubts about the accuracy of this release, and since then have been marked as guilty from the Mafia to the Ku Klux Klan racist society, through oil and armament trust and the CIA itself.
