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Who is John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy?

John Fitzgerald Kennedy Born on 29 May 1917 in Brooklyn, Massachusetts and die on 22 November 1963 in Dallas. He's often referred to by his initials JFK.

He was the 35th President of the United States during two years from 1961 to 1963.

While the World War II:

After military service as commander of the Motor Torpedo Boats during World War II in the South Pacific, Kennedy represented Massachusetts's 11th Congressional District in the House of Representatives from 1947 to 1953 as a democrat. 

After that, he served in the american Senate from 1953 until 1960. Kennedy defeated Vice President and Republican candidate Richard Nixon in the 1960 Presidential Election. He was the youngest elected to the office, at the age of 43, the second-youngest President, after Theodore Roosevelt (26th President of the U.S.A).

His Presidential beginnings:


 
Kennedy was the only Catholic  president, and is the only president to have won a Pulitzer Prize for his book “Profiles in Courage”. This book is a list of portraits of politicians who didn't hesitate to risk their reputation to assert their opinions.


On 12 September 1953, the future president of the United States married Jaqueline Lee Bouvier in Newport. America White House seven years later. They had four children, but lose a stillborn girl in  1956 and a little boy a few days after birth in 1963 . In 1957 born Caroline and John Jr in 1960.


Kennedy was assassinated on 22 November 1963 in Dallas, Texas. Although Lee Harvey Oswald was charged with the crime, he was shot and killed by J. Ruby two days later, before a trial could take place. The FBI and the Warren Commission officially concluded that Oswald was the lone assassin. However, the U.S. House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) concluded that those investigations were flawed and that Kennedy as the result of a conspiracy. Kennedy continues to rank highly in public opinion rating of U.S. presidents.





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