John F Kennedy (CV 67) - Naval Cruise Book

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TABLE OF CONTENT INTRODUCTION JOHN F. KENNEDY BIOGRAPHY SHIP ' S SEAL SHIP ' S HISTORY THEME THE SHIP COMCARGRU SIX FLAG STAFF COMMANDING OFFICER EXECUTIVE OFFICER CAG : COMMAND MASTER CHIE PRE-DEPLOYMENT WORff-TIPL BARBADOS THE BRITISH ARE CHANGE OF COMMAND OCEAN SAFARI UNITED EF PORTSMOUTH, ENGLAND DEPARTMENTS OPERATIONS SUPPLY NAVIGATION AIR - DENTAL ENGINEE AIMD WEAPONS

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IN MEMORY OF JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY 1917-1963 •John KitZ|{orald Konnody was born May 29, 1917, in Krooklinc, Massachusotts, the son of .losoph V. Kennedy, a pro businessman, who served as U.S. AmQi sador lo Great Britain for four years. John K. Kennedy acted as his father ' s sec- retary in London in 193H and graduated from Harvard in 1910. He commanded a Navy PT-boat in the Pacific during World War II. In action off the Solomons, his boat was sunk by an enemy destroyer, and Ken- nedy was credited with heroism in saving his crew. His political career began in 1916 when he was elected to Congress as a Democrat from Massachusetts and continued with his reelection in 1948 and 1950. In 1952 Kennedy was elected to the U.S. Senate. In 19J ' l-55 he underwent operations on a spi- nal injury, suffered during the war. Away from the Senate, Kennedy wrote Profiles in Courage, for which he won a Pulitzer Prize. In 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 elect- ed 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 af- fairs, his principal accomplishments were the establishment of the Peace Corps, the Alliance for Progress with Latin Ameri- ca, and the nuclear test ban treaty. John F. Kennedy died on November 22, 1963 in Dallas. Texas, as the result of an assassin ' s hulU-t. President Kennedy sailing his yacht on Nantucket Sound. ' resident Kennedy and his family on the porch of their preferred ||Btion spot; the family home in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts.