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| Name |
John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| Prefix |
President |
| Birth |
29 May 1917 |
Brookline, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States  |
| Christening |
19 Jun 1917 |
St. Aidans Church, Brookline, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
22 Nov 1963 |
Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States |
| Burial |
25 Nov 1963 |
Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, United States |
| Initiatory (LDS) |
1 Oct 2002 |
PORTL |
| FamilySearch ID |
L89N-K6Q |
| Headstones |
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| Person ID |
I168329 |
mytree |
| Last Modified |
25 Feb 2024 |
| Father |
Joseph Patrick "Joe" Kennedy, b. 6 Sep 1888, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States d. 18 Nov 1969, Hyannis Port, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States (Age 81 years) |
| Mother |
Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald, b. 22 Jul 1890, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States d. 22 Jan 1995, Hyannis Port, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States (Age 104 years) |
| Marriage |
7 Oct 1914 |
Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States |
| Family ID |
F42361 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Jacqueline Lee "Jackie" Bouvier, b. 28 Jul 1929, Southampton, Suffolk, New York, United States d. 19 May 1994, Manhattan, New York, New York, United States (Age 64 years) |
| Marriage |
12 Sep 1953 |
Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, United States |
| Children |
| | 1. Arabella Kennedy, b. 23 Aug 1956, Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, United States d. 23 Aug 1956, Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, United States (Age 0 years) |
| | 2. Living |
| | 3. John Fitzgerald "John-John" Kennedy, Jr, b. 25 Nov 1960, Washington, District of Columbia, United States d. 16 Jul 1999, At Sea off the coast of Martha's Vineyard, Dukes, Massachusetts, United States (Age 38 years) |
| | 4. Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, b. 7 Aug 1963, Bourne, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States d. 8 Aug 1963, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States (Age 0 years) |
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| Family ID |
F42363 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
5 May 2024 |
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| Event Map |
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 | Birth - 29 May 1917 - Brookline, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States |
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 | Christening - 19 Jun 1917 - St. Aidans Church, Brookline, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States |
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 | Marriage - 12 Sep 1953 - Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, United States |
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 | Death - 22 Nov 1963 - Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States |
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 | Burial - 25 Nov 1963 - Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, United States |
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 | Initiatory (LDS) - 1 Oct 2002 - PORTL |
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| Notes |
- John F. Kennedy was the 35th President of the United States (1961-1963 ) , the youngest man elected to the office. On November 22, 1963, when h e w as hardly past his first thousand days in office, JFK was assassinate d i n Dallas, Texas, becoming also the youngest President to die.
On November 22, 1963, when he was hardly past his first thousand day s i n office, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was killed by an assassin’s bullet s a s his motorcade wound through Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was the younges t ma n elected President; he was the youngest to die.
Of Irish descent, he was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, on May 29, 19 1 7. Graduating from Harvard in 1940, he entered the Navy. In 1943, whe n hi s PT boat was rammed and sunk by a Japanese destroyer, Kennedy, desp ite g rave injuries, led the survivors through perilous waters to safety.
Back from the war, he became a Democratic Congressman from the Boston ar e a, advancing in 1953 to the Senate. He married Jacqueline Bouvier on Se pt ember 12, 1953. In 1955, while recuperating from a back operation, h e wro te Profiles in Courage, which won the Pulitzer Prize in history.
In 1956 Kennedy almost gained the Democratic nomination for Vice Preside n t, and four years later was a first-ballot nominee for President. Milli on s watched his television debates with the Republican candidate, Richar d M . Nixon. Winning by a narrow margin in the popular vote, Kennedy beca me t he first Roman Catholic President.
His Inaugural Address offered the memorable injunction: “Ask not what yo u r country can do for you–ask what you can do for your country.” As Pres id ent, he set out to redeem his campaign pledge to get America moving ag ain . His economic programs launched the country on its longest sustaine d exp ansion since World War II; before his death, he laid plans for a ma ssiv e assault on persisting pockets of privation and poverty.
Responding to ever more urgent demands, he took vigorous action in the c a use of equal rights, calling for new civil rights legislation. His visi o n of America extended to the quality of the national culture and the ce nt ral role of the arts in a vital society.
He wished America to resume its old mission as the first nation dedicat e d to the revolution of human rights. With the Alliance for Progress an d t he Peace Corps, he brought American idealism to the aid of developin g nat ions. But the hard reality of the Communist challenge remained.
Shortly after his inauguration, Kennedy permitted a band of Cuban exile s , already armed and trained, to invade their homeland. The attempt to o ve rthrow the regime of Fidel Castro was a failure. Soon thereafter, th e Sov iet Union renewed its campaign against West Berlin. Kennedy replie d by re inforcing the Berlin garrison and increasing the Nation’s militar y streng th, including new efforts in outer space. Confronted by this rea ction, Mo scow, after the erection of the Berlin Wall, relaxed its pressu re in cent ral Europe.
Instead, the Russians now sought to install nuclear missiles in Cuba. Wh e n this was discovered by air reconnaissance in October 1962, Kennedy im po sed a quarantine on all offensive weapons bound for Cuba. While the wo rl d trembled on the brink of nuclear war, the Russians backed down and a gre ed to take the missiles away. The American response to the Cuban cris is e vidently persuaded Moscow of the futility of nuclear blackmail.
Kennedy now contended that both sides had a vital interest in stopping t h e spread of nuclear weapons and slowing the arms race–a contention whi c h led to the test ban treaty of 1963. The months after the Cuban crisi s s howed significant progress toward his goal of “a world of law and fre e ch oice, banishing the world of war and coercion.” His administration t hus s aw the beginning of new hope for both the equal rights of American s and t he peace of the world.
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