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John F. Kennedy's tenure as the 35th president of the United States began with his inauguration on January 20, 1961, and ended with his assassination on November 22, 1963. Kennedy, a Democrat from Massachusetts , took office following his narrow victory over Republican incumbent vice president Richard Nixon in the 1960 presidential ...
- John F. Kennedy’s Early Life
- JFK’s Beginnings in Politics
- Kennedy’s Road to Presidency
- Kennedy’s Foreign Policy Challenges
- Kennedy’s Leadership at Home
- JFK’s Assassination
Born on May 29, 1917, in Brookline, Massachusetts, John F. Kennedy (known as Jack) was the second of nine children. His parents, Joseph and Rose Kennedy, hailed from two of Boston’s most prominent Irish Catholic political families. Despite persistent health problems throughout his childhood and teenage years (he would later be diagnosed with a rare...
Abandoning plans to be a journalist, Jack left the Navy by the end of 1944. Less than a year later, he returned to Boston, preparing a run for Congress in 1946. As a moderately conservative Democrat, and backed by his father’s fortune, Jack won his party’s nomination handily and carried the mostly working-class Eleventh District by nearly three to ...
After nearly earning his party’s nomination for vice president (under Adlai Stevenson) in 1956, Kennedy announced his candidacy for president on January 2, 1960. He defeated a primary challenge from the more liberal Hubert Humphrey and chose the Senate majority leader, Lyndon Johnson of Texas, as his running mate. In the general election, Kennedy f...
An early crisis in the foreign affairs arena occurred in April 1961, when Kennedy approved the plan to send 1,400 CIA-trained Cuban exiles in an amphibious landing at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba. Intended to spur a rebellion that would overthrow the communist leader Fidel Castro, the mission ended in failure, with nearly all of the exiles captured or k...
During his first year in office, Kennedy oversaw the launch of the Peace Corps, which would send young volunteers to underdeveloped countries all over the world. Otherwise, he was unable to achieve much of his proposed legislation during his lifetime, including two of his biggest priorities: income tax cuts and a civil rights bill. Slow to commit h...
On November 22, 1963, the president and his wife landed in Dallas; he had spoken in San Antonio, Austin and Fort Worth the day before. From the airfield, the party then traveled in a motorcade to the Dallas Trade Mart, the site of Jack’s next speaking engagement. Shortly after 12:30 p.m., as the motorcade passed through downtown Dallas, shots rang ...
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to as JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. He was the youngest person elected president. [2] .
1 Leben bis zur Präsidentschaft (1917–1961) 1.1 Familie und Schule (1917–1935) 1.2 Studium (1935–1940) 1.3 Militärdienst im Zweiten Weltkrieg (1941–1945) 1.4 Repräsentantenhaus (1945–1953) 1.5 Heirat und Ehe mit Jacqueline Lee Bouvier (1953) 1.6 Senat (1953–1960) 1.7 Präsidentschaftswahl 1960. 2 Präsidentschaft (1961–1963)
John F. Kennedy was the 35th President of the United States (1961-1963), the youngest man elected to the office. On November 22, 1963, when he was hardly past his first thousand days in...
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Presidential candidate and president. Learn about the failed Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban missile crisis that occurred during U.S. President John F. Kennedy's tenure. An overview of John F. Kennedy. See all videos for this article. John F. Kennedy, 1961. Kennedy had nearly become Stevenson’s vice presidential running mate in 1956.
