<div class="container"> <div class="jumbotron"> <!-- <link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Montserrat" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> <link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> --> <h1 class="text-center text-primary"> John F. Kennedy</h1> <h2 class="text-secondary text-center">May 29, 1917 - November 22, 1963</h2> <a href="#"><img class="img-circle img-responsive center-block" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5e/John_F._Kennedy,_White_House_photo_portrait,_looking_up.jpg" alt="JFK Cover Main Photo" width="300" height="200"></a> </div> <br> <br> <div class="jumbotron"> <p class="text-info text-center">Timeline of Kennedy's Accomplishments and Life Events <ul> <li><strong>May 29, 1917 - </strong>Born at 83 Beals Street in Brookline, Massachusetts. </li> <li><strong>September 1936 - </strong>Enrolled at Harvard College, where he produced that year's annual "Freshman Smoker". He tried out for the football, golf, and swimming teams and earned a spot on the varsity swimming team as well as winning the Nantucket Sound Star Championship in sailing. </li> <li><strong> September 12, 1953 - </strong> Kennedy (36) married 24 year old Jacqueline Bouvier at St. Mary's Church in Newport, Rhode Island. </li> <li><strong>June 12, 1944 - </strong>Awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal (the Navy's highest noncombat decoration for heroism) for his heroic actions on August 1–2, 1943, and the Purple Heart Medal for his back injury on PT-109, on August 1, 1943 (injured on August 2). </li> <li><strong>Military Awards - </strong>Kennedy's military decorations and awards include the Navy and Marine Corps Medal, Purple Heart Medal, American Defense Service Medal, American Campaign Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal with three 3⁄16" bronze stars, and the World War II Victory Medal. </li> <li><strong>U.S. House of Representatives (1947–1953) -</strong> </li> <ul> <li>In November 1946,Kennedy's father urged U.S. Representative James Michael Curley to vacate his seat in the strongly Democratic 11th Congressional district in Massachusetts to become mayor of Boston. Kennedy ran for the seat, beating his Republican opponent by a large margin in November 1946. He served as a congressman for six years. </li> </ul> <li><strong>U.S. Senate (1953–1960) </strong> <ul> <li>In the 1952 U.S. Senate election, Kennedy defeated incumbent Republican Henry Cabot Lodge II for the Senate seat.</li> <li>Kennedy underwent several spinal operations over the next two years. Often absent from the Senate, he was at times critically ill and received Catholic last rites. </li> <li>During his convalescence in 1956, he published Profiles in Courage, a book about U.S. senators who risked their careers for their personal beliefs, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1957 </li> <li>Kennedy finished second in the balloting for Vice President, losing to Senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee but receiving national exposure as a result </li> <li>In 1958, Kennedy was re-elected to a second term in the Senate, defeating his Republican opponent, Boston lawyer Vincent J. Celeste, by a wide margin. </li> </ul> <li><strong>1960 Presidential Election </strong></li> <ul> <li>On January 2, 1960, Kennedy initiated his campaign for president in the Democratic primary election, where he faced challenges from Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota and Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon.</li> <li>At the Democratic Convention, he gave his well-known "New Frontier" speech, saying: "For the problems are not all solved and the battles are not all won—and we stand today on the edge of a New Frontier.... But the New Frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises—it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them." </li> <li>On July 13, the Democratic convention nominated Kennedy as its candidate. Kennedy asked Johnson to be his vice presidential candidate, despite opposition from many liberal delegates and Kennedy's own staff, including his brother Bobby.</li> <li>In September and October, Kennedy appeared with vice president and Republican candidate Richard Nixon in the first televised U.S. presidential debates in U.S. history. The debates are now considered a milestone in American political history—the point at which the medium of television began to play a dominant role in politics. </li> <li> On November 8, Kennedy defeated Nixon in one of the closest presidential elections of the 20th century. Kennedy was the youngest man elected president, succeeding Eisenhower, who was then the oldest (Ronald Reagan surpassed Eisenhower as the oldest president in 1981). </li> </ul> <li><strong>Presidency (1961–1963) </strong></li> <ul> <li>John F. Kennedy was sworn in as the 35th president at noon on January 20, 1961. In his inaugural address he spoke of the need for all Americans to be active citizens, famously saying: "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country."</li> <li>In a July 1961 speech, Kennedy announced his decision to add $3.25 billion to the defense budget, along with over 200,000 additional troops, stating that an attack on West Berlin would be taken as an attack on the U.S. The speech received an 85% approval rating </li> <li>The following month, the Soviet Union and East Berlin began blocking any further passage of East Berliners into West Berlin and erected barbed wire fences across the city, which were quickly upgraded to the Berlin Wall.</li> <li>President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, at 12:30 pm Central Standard Time on Friday November 22, 1963, while on a political trip to Texas to smooth over frictions in the Democratic Party between liberals Ralph Yarborough and Don Yarborough and conservative John Connally. Traveling in a presidential motorcade through downtown Dallas, he was shot once in the back, the bullet exiting via his throat,[276] and once in the head. <li>Only 46, President Kennedy died younger than any other U.S. president to date. <li>Lee Harvey Oswald, an order filler at the Texas School Book Depository from which the shots were suspected to have been fired, was arrested for the murder of police officer J. D. Tippit, and was charged subsequently with Kennedy's assassination. He denied shooting anyone, claiming he was a patsy, and was killed by Jack Ruby on November 24, before he could be prosecuted. Ruby was arrested and convicted for the murder of Oswald. <br> <br> <div class="pull-md-right"> <blockquote class="blockquote"> <p class="m-b-0">Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.</p> <footer class="blockquote-footer">John F Kennedy on <cite title="Source Title">June 25, 1963</cite> </footer> </blockquote> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-6"> To learn more about <strong>JKF</strong> check out his <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy"> wiki page</a>. </div> </div> </div> <br> <br> </p> </div> </div> </div>

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