John F Kennedy (CV 67) - Naval Cruise Book

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i 4 5 1 it ii fl tl it . li I I. I I i A l I r I L It ji. , . I I l :,,...... :f..'4,5 my.,--,. 'I I . . .. -,,, .qv .,-... ...,-.Q-.. I e--o-vv-..f.:.Z...f,,Pn.....unv!- by Q A. Q I John Fitzgerald Kenned ohn Fitzgerald Kennedy yy as born in Brookline. Nlassachusetts on Xlay 29. IQI7. the son olfloseph Patrick Kennedy and Rose lfitfgerald Kennedy. ln all. Rose would have nine children. four boys and live girls. .lohn was named in honor of Roses father. .lohn Francis Fitzgerald. the popular Boston Mayor who everybody knevv as I Ioney' Fitz, Before long. family and friends called this small blue-eyed baby. lack. .lack was not a very healthy baby'. and Rose made zt note of recording the childhood diseases he suffered from: whooping cough. measles and chicken pox. On February 20. I920 when Jack was not yet three years old. he became sick with scarlet fever. a highly contagious and potentially lite-threatening disease. His father, Joseph Patrick Kennedy. was terrified that little Jack would die. Mr. Kennedy went to the hospital every day to be by his son 's side. and about a month later .lack took a turn for the better and recovered. But .lack was never very healthy. and because he was always suffering from one ailment or another his family used to joke about the great risk a mosquito took in biting him--with some of his blood the mosquito was almost sure to diel When Jack was three. the Kennedys moved to a new home a few blocks away from their old house in Brookline. a neighborhood jtist outside ofBoston. It was a lovely i house with twelve rooms, turreted windows, and a big porch. Full of energy and ambition, Jack's father worked very hard at I becoming a s u c c e s s f u I businessman. When he was a student at Harvard College and having a difficult time fitting in as an Irish Catholic. he swore to himself he would make a million dollars by the age ofthirty- five. There was a lot of prejudice against 14 . t . Irish t 'ttholics in Boston at that time. but .loseph Kennedy yy as determined to -. .At f succeed, .Iack's gicat gmiidpaicnts had come from Ireland and managed to proy ide for their families. despite many hardships. .lacks grandfathers did even better lor themselves. both Boston politicians. lack. bccatisc oliall his family had done comfortable life becoming prominent uld enjoy' a yery The Kennedys had everything they needed and more. There was alyvays something going on inthe Kennedy family home. By the time .lack vvas eight there were seven children - altogether, .lack had an older brother. .loci four sisters. Rosemary. Kathleen. liunice. and Patricia: and a younger brother. Robert. .lean and Teddy hadn't been born yet. Nannies and housekeepers helped Rose run the household. At the end ofthe school year. the Kennedy children would go to their summer home in I Iyannis Port on Cape Cod where they liked swimming. sailing. and playing touch football. The Kennedy children played hard. and they enjoyed competing with one another. Joseph Senior encouraged these competitions. especially among the boys. He was a father with very high expectations and wanted the boys to win at sports and everything they tried. He often said. When the going gets tough. the tough get going . But sometimes t Ii c s e competitions went too far. One time when Joe suggested that he and Jack race on their bicycles, they collided head-on. Joe emerged unscathed while Jack had to have twenty-eight s t i t c h e s . Because Joe was two years older and stronger than Jack, whenever they fought, Jack would usually get the worst of it. Jack was the only sibling who posed any real V --,..--Q, V threat to .loe's throne as the oldest child. The next in line yvcre girls. and Bobby and 'll y yy ere still too young to be anything ctltlh but pests. .lack yy as ycry popular and had many friends at Choate. a boarding school for adolescent boys in Connecticut. He played tennis. basketball. football. and golf and also enjoyed reading. His friend Lent Billings remembers how unusual it was that Jack had a daily subscription to the New York Titnes newspaper. lack had a clever, individualist mind . his Head Master once noted. though he was not the best student. He did not always work as hard as he could, except in history and English. which were his favorite subjects. l'Now Jack , his tather give the impression that I am a nagger, forf goodness knows I think that is the worse? thing any parent can be, and I also feel thafg you know if I didn't really feel you had th goods I would be most charitable in m attitude toward your failings. After experience in sizing up people I detinitel' know you have the goods and you can go 1.1 long way. . .lt is very difficult to make fundamentals that you have neglected wh ' you were very young, and that is why I at urging you to do the best yougcatyl am n expecting too much. and I will not n 1 ' . .. f - .nina - 1 I , Q T- .. . ., ,-.j..:dt,' '.-1.. F I-'13-'-. Q-.L..e.Ia'.f1..' are .---p.-a...-.-.- V ., --...f-..-........f---...-..-k .....-,... ---. V-p -'- wrote in a letter one day. I don't want to.-