John+F.+Kennedy

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born May 29, 1917 at 83 Beals Street in Brookline, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston. John was one of nine kids in his family. A few years later John and his family moved to New York. When he was a child, he loved to spend the summer in Cape Cod with his family. JFK went to Choate Boarding School in Connecticut with his brother Joe, Jr.

JFK's parents focused on Joe, Jr. and wanted Joe, Jr. to be the first Catholic president. When JFK was a boy, he wanted to try to beat his brother Joe in football, racing, and school work but he never did. Once he had a bicycle race with Joe and they smashed head on into each other. Joe wasn't hurt but John had to get 28 stitches. Joe, Jr. was a football star and a star at school work John was not a great student nor an award winning athlete like his brother.

When John was a teenager, he often got sick with colds and fevers. He made the Dexter School football team when he was young. He played golf, basketball, and football.

He became a hero by rescuing the sailors on the PT Boat 109 that got rammed by a Japanese ship.

On September 12, 1953 in Newport, Rhode Island he announced his engagement to Jacqueline Bouvier. They were married and had two children. His children were Caroline and John. The family's pets were rabbits, lambs, guinea pigs, a pony named Macaroni, a Welsh terrier named Charlie, and Pushinka, who was the daughter of a Soviet space dog. John served in World War II at Pearl Harbor. Joe Jr. was killed during World War II. In 1960 John wanted to be president, and he was elected president.

JFK was the richest president of the United States. He was a millionaire at age 21. He became the first Catholic president. He didn't take his salary; he just donated it to Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, the United Negro College Fund, and Jewish organizations. While John was president, he promoted civil rights legislation. He also sought a tax cut stimulating the economy. In 1961, John created the Peace Corps to help underdeveloped countries. In 1962 he forced missiles to be removed from Cuba. John achieved the most important accomplishment of his presidency, which was the Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty. On November 22, 1963 John was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. John was in a small convertible going down the street in a parade. John was shot, and within an hour he died at age 46. John was buried at the Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. It is just across the river from Washington, D.C. He was remembered as a man who tried to help America. Many Americans believe that he was killed by one man, Lee Harvey Oswald. Others are convinced his death was part of a conspiracy. Experts have studied the case and have come to the conclusion that Oswald was only assassin. Some Americans still believe that that was not the case. Works Cited Harper, Judith E. __John F. Kennedy our thirty-fifth president__. Chanhassen, Minn: Child's World, 2002. Heiligman, Deborah. __High hopes a photobiography of John F. Kennedy__. Washington, D.C: National Geographic, 2003. Krull, Kathleen. __Lives of the presidents fame, shame, and what the neighbors thought__. San Diego: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1998. Potts, Steve. __John F. Kennedy a photo-illustrated biography__. Mankato, Minn: Bridgestone Books, 1996.