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John Fitzgerald Kennedy 35th President of the United States

(January 20, 1961 to November 22, 1963) Nickname: "JFK", "Jack" Born: May 29, 1917, in Brookline, Massachusetts

Died: November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas

Father: Joseph Patrick Kennedy

Mother: Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald Kennedy

Married: Jacqueline Lee Bouvier (1929-1994), on September 12, 1953

Children: Caroline Bouvier Kennedy (1957- ); John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Jr. (1960-99); Patrick Bouvier Kennedy (1963)

Religion: Roman Catholic

Education: Graduated from Harvard College (1940)

Occupation: Author, public official

Political Party: Democrat

Other Government Positions:

Member of U.S. House of Representatives, 1947-53

United States Senator, 1953-61

Presidential Salary: $100,000/year + $50,000 expense account (refused by Kennedy)

Presidential Election Results: Year Popular Votes Electoral Votes 1960 John F. Kennedy 34,226,731 303 Richard M. Nixon 34,108,157 219

Vice President: Lyndon B. Johnson (1961-63)

Cabinet:

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Notable Events:

1960 The first joint radio-television broadcast of a U.S. Presidential debate was held on September 26. It was between Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon.

1961 The U.S. sponsored Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba was attempted without success. Nikita Khrushchev, the Prime Minister of the Soviet Union, ordered the creation of the Berlin Wall in June to divide Soviet-controlled East Berlin from West Berlin, which was part of the free and democratic West Germany.

1963 The Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty was signed on August 6 by the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union. August 28: thousands march on Washington, calling for equal access to public facilities, quality education, adequate employment, and decent housing for African Americans. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his famous “I have a dream” speech. President Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963 in Dallas Texas.



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Other Internet Resources:

JFK Assassination Homepage Created by Ralph Schuster, this is one of many conspiracy sites on the Internet on the assassination of John F. Kennedy. In addition to the author’s personal opinions, there is other useful information here — a film and video library, an account of the events of November 22, 1963, the text of the Warren Report, and links to other JFK assassination sites. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library Located in Boston, Massachusetts, information on the museum, library collection, and tours can be found here. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts A "living memorial" to Kennedy, an outspoken supporter of the arts. Located in Washington, D.C. Information on the history and performances at the Kennedy Center is also available. Sixth Floor Museum Located on the Sixth Floor of the former Texas School Book Depository in Dallas, Texas, this site is believed to be the location where Kennedy’s assassin fired upon the presidential motorcade. Now a museum dedicated to the life of Kennedy. Tourist information is available.

Points of Interest:

Kennedy’s speech to the students at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on October 14, 1960 was the start of the Peace Corps.

In his speech to a Joint Session of Congress on May 25, 1961, Kennedy set the goal of landing a man on the moon by 1969 for the United States’s Space Program (NASA).

Kennedy gave a famous speech in West Berlin in June 1963 that emphasized the importance of the “free world” fighting the “Communist world”. Two memorable phrases that he spoke in German were: “Lass’sie nach Berlin kommen,” or “Let them come to Berlin”; and “Ish bin ein Bearleener,” or “I am a Berliner.”

Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963 in Dallas Texas. He had spent little more than a thousand days in office before being assassinated.

In 1965, the report of the President’s Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy (also known as the Warren Commission) found that a lone gunman, Lee Harvey Oswald, fatally shot Kennedy from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository. Three other government investigations were later conducted. All three agreed with the Warren Commission’s conclusions that Oswald’s shots did kill Kennedy. However, the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) in 1979 also concluded that another shooter fired upon Kennedy from the Dealey Plaza grassy knoll and missed. The existence of a second shooter and many other conclusions in these investigations are very controversial.

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