John Fitzgerald Kennedy History 8 Lesson 135

John Kennedy was born into a rich and prominent Kennedy family in May 1917 in the state of Massachusetts. JFK grew up in a privileged family journeying across the world seeing many things, when he finished college at Harvard he entered the navy during World War 2. In WW2 he commanded a gunboat, almost a the end of the war his gunboat was sunk and he valiantly helped his crew, making him get a medal.

At the end of the war, he entered politics easily becoming a congressman and later senator because of his family’s deep political connections. John Kennedy, in 1961 became the American president because of his charming personality, great oratory skills, and also a rich and politically deeply connected family. John Kennedy and his wife Jackie Kennedy were not only a leader politically but also fashion trendsetters.

John Kennedy was well known to be the person to deal with the Cuban communist government, such as defusing diplomatically the Cuban missile crisis. John Kennedy also expanded NASA encouraging the agency to outrun the Soviet space technology, he did many other things in his presidency.

John F Kennedy was sadly assassinated in Nov 1963 in Dallas by an assassin, when he was campaigning.

That is my essay on JFK.

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