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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 election.
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Recorded March 1, 1961. John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29,...
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John F. Kennedy, a Democrat from Massachusetts, was elected...
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John F. Kennedy (1963), Foto: Cecil W. Stoughton John Fitzgerald Kennedy, meist kurz John F. Kennedy (* 29.Mai 1917 in Brookline, Massachusetts; † 22. November 1963 in Dallas, Texas), privat „Jack“ genannt, später häufig nur bei seinen Initialen JFK, war als Politiker der Demokratischen Partei von 1961 bis zu seiner Ermordung im November 1963 der 35.
- 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 ...
Kabinett Kennedy Regierung der Vereinigten Staaten: Präsident: John F. Kennedy: Wahl 1960: Legislaturperiode 87., 88. Bildung 20. Januar 1961 Ende 22. November 1963 Dauer 2 Jahre und 306 Tage Vorgänger Kabinett Eisenhower: Nachfolger Kabinett Lyndon B. Johnson: Zusammensetzung Partei(en) Demokratische Partei: Minister 10 Wahl im ...
17. Feb. 2020 · The White House Historical Association’s 2020 Official White House Christmas Ornament honors John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the thirty-fifth president of the United States. The youngest president since Theodore Roosevelt, Kennedy took office in January 1961, at age 43. Before his vibrant presidency was cut short by an assassin’s bullet on ...
