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1963 BCE
SIGNING A NECLEAR TEST BAN TREATY
In July 1963, Kennedy won his greatest victory when Khrushchev agreed to join him for in signing a nuclear test ban treaty. -
1962 BCE
NAVAL BLOCKADE OF CUBA
Cuba that could pose a threat to the continental U.S, Kennedy announced a naval blockade of Cuba. -
1962 BCE
KENNEDY’S LEADERSHIP AT HOME
Sending federal troops to support the desegregation of the University of Mississippi, after riots there left two dead and many others injured. -
1962 BCE
SENATE SEAT
Edward (Ted), was elected to Jack’s former Senate seat in 1962 -
1961 BCE
KENNEDY’S FOREIGN POLICY CHALLENGES
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 -
1961 BCE
FAILED ATTEMPT
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. -
1957 BCE
KENNEDY AS WRITTER
He wrote another best-selling book, “Profiles in Courage,” which won the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 1957 -
1954 BCE
JOHN KENNEDY VS COMMUNISTS
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. -
1953 BCE
HIS WEDDING
On September 12, 1953, Kennedy married the beautiful socialite and journalist Jacqueline (Jackie) Lee Bouvier -
1947 BCE
80TH CONGRESS
He entered the 80th Congress in January 1947, at the age of 29, and immediately attracted attention for his youthful appearance. -
1946 BCE
PREPARING CONGRESS
Less than a year later, he was back in Boston preparing for a run for Congress in 1946. -
1944 BCE
JFK’S BEGINNINGS IN POLITICS
Abandoning plans to be a journalist, Jack left the Navy by the end of 1944. -
1941 BCE
U.S NAVY
Jack joined the U.S. Navy in 1941 and two years later was sent to the South Pacific, where he was given command of a Patrol-Torpedo (PT). -
1937 BCE
NAMED AMBASSADOR
In 1934 and in 1937 was named U.S. ambassador to Great Britain. -
1937 BCE
HIS STUDIES
As a student at Harvard University, Jack traveled in Europe as his father’s secretary. -
JOHN F. KENNEDY’S EARLY LIFE
Born on May 29, 1917, in Brookline, Massachusetts, John F. Kennedy (known as Jack) -
KENNEDY VICTORIOUS
Kennedy won reelection to the House of Representatives, and in 1952 ran successfully for the Senate, defeating the popular Republican incumbent Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. -
KENNEDY’S ROAD TO PRESIDENCY.
Kennedy announced his candidacy for president on January 2, 1960. -
FIRST CATHOLIC PRESIDENT U.S
Kennedy won by a narrow margin–less than 120,000 out of some 70 million votes cast–becoming the youngest man and the first Roman Catholic to be elected president of the United States. -
JFK’S ASSASSINATION
On November 22, 1963, in Dallas Kennedy was struck twice, in the neck and head, and was pronounced dead.
