Biography of jfk 1963

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    An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, –

    book by Robert Dallek

    An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, – is a biography of the 35th president of the United States, John F. Kennedy (JFK), who was assassinated in It was written by Bancroft Prize-winning historian Robert Dallek, a prominent History professor at Boston University. The author is a presidential historian who taught at Columbia University and UCLA prior to accepting his professorial role in Boston, and was the author of nearly two-dozen books. Dallek researched JFK for five years, using National Security Archives, oral histories, White House tapes, and medical records in his preparations.[1] Dallek contends that historians have underestimated JFK's achievements, especially in regards to his impressive accomplishments in foreign policy, including his averting nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis and his early steps towards detente with the Soviet Union, which began with his Partial Nuclear Test Ban Trea

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    On November 22, , when he was hardly past his first thousand days in office, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was killed by an assassin's bullets as his motorcade wound through Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was the youngest man elected President; he was the youngest to die.

    Of Irish descent, he was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, on May 29, Graduating from Harvard in , he entered the Navy. In , when his PT boat was rammed and sunk by a Japanese destroyer, Kennedy, despite grave injuries, led the survivors through perilous waters to safety.

    Back from the war, he became a Democratic Congressman from the Boston area, advancing in to the Senate. He married Jacqueline Bouvier on September 12, In , while recuperating from a back operation, he wrote Profiles in Courage, which won the Pulitzer Prize in history.

    In Kennedy almost gained the Democratic nomination for Vice President, and four years later was a first-ballot nominee for President. Millions watched his television debates with the

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    Life of John F. Kennedy

    Growing Up in the Kennedy Family

    Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, who was a very disciplined and organized woman, made the following entry on a notecard, when her second child was born:

    John Fitzgerald Kennedy 
    Born Brookline, Mass. (83 Beals Street) May 29,  

    In all, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy would have nine children, four boys and fem girls. She kept notecards for each of them in a small wooden file kartong and made a point of writing down everything from a doctor’s visit to the shoe storlek they had at a particular age. John Fitzgerald Kennedy was named in honor of Rose’s father, John Francis Fitzgerald, the Boston Mayor popularly known as Honey Fitz. Before long, family and friends called this small blue-eyed baby, Jack. Jack was not a very healthy baby, and Rose recorded on his notecard the childhood diseases from which he suffered, such as: "whooping cough, measles, chicken pox."

    On February 20, when Jack was not yet three years old, he became si