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..-.. - , - iff-170-lf ,, 14-41, gp -..Ire - V - .. JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY - 35TH U.S. PRESIDENT -' ohn Fitzgerald Kennedy was born May 29, 1917, in Brookline. Massachusetts, the son of Joseph P. Kennedy, a prominent businessman, who served as U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain for four years. John F. Kennedy acted as his father's secretary in London in 1938 and graduated from Harvard in 1940. He commanded a Navy PT-boat in the Pacific during World War ll. ln action off the Solomons, his boat was sunk by an enemy destroyer, and Kennedy was credited with heroism in saving his crew. His political career began in 1946 when he was elected to Congress as a Democrat from Massachusetts and continued with his reelection in 1948 and 1950. ln 1952 Kennedy was elected to the U.S. Senate. In 1954-55 he underwent operations on a spinal injury, suffered during the war. Away from the Senate, Kennedy wrote Profiles in Courage, for which he won a Pulitzer Prize. ln 1958 he was reelected to the Senate. At the Democratic National Convention in 1960, Kennedy received the Presidential nomination. Kennedy won the election and at 43 became the youngest man ever elected to the White House and the nation's first Roman Catholic President. President Kennedy's administration, called the New Frontier, pressed for Federal aid to education, enlargement of civil rights, aid to economically depressed areas, medical care for the aged, and an accelerated space program. In foreign affairs, his principal accomplishments were the establishment of the Peace Corps, the Alliance for Progress with Latin America, and the nuclear test ban treaty. John F. Kennedy died on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas, as the result of an assassin's bullet. Clockwlse from upper left- JFK and Robert Kennedy at the White House dulng the Cuban mlsslle crlsls: memorabilia from President Kennedy's desk on display at JFK library ln Boston: Lt. Kennedy aboard PT-109 during World War ll CPT-109 flag ls ln lower left comerj' gxmg ravome pictures or daughter comime, from his desk ln the Oval e. -

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