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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.

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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).

"50 years after JFK"


50 years after the dead to JFK, everybody is always excited. For this occasion, Caroline Kennedy was interviewed about a part of the collections of the Presidential Library. Here is her speech during the prestigious John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award™ in 2012: