Last name 1

Name
Course
Tutor
Date
The biography of JF Kennedy

John Fitzgerald Kennedy was the 35th President of the United States. Kennedy, of an Irish

accent, was born in Brookline, Massachusetts on May 29, 1917. His mother, Rose Elizabeth

Fitzgerald, was a Boston debutante and his father, Joseph Kennedy Sr., was a banker. His father

went on to be a Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, and ambassador to Great

Britain. Kennedy graduated from Harvard in 1940 and joined the Navy. Back from the war, he

became a Democratic Congressman from Boston and to the Senate in 1953. In September 12,

1953 he got married to Jacqueline Bouvier. He won the 1957 Pulitzer Prize for writing Profiles

in Courage while recuperating from a back injury.

In 1956, Kennedy almost gained the Democratic nomination for Vice President, and four

years later was first-ballot nominee for President. He won against Richard M. Nixon by a narrow

margin in the popular vote to become the first Roman Catholic President. He sought to inspire all

Americans to more active citizenship.

“Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country,” he said. He

then set out to redeem his campaign pledge to get America moving again. His economic

programs launched the country o its longest sustained expansion since World War II. His vision

of America extended to the quality of the national culture. He called for equal rights and new

civil rights legislation. One of the last acts of his presidency and his life, a civil rights bill he sent

to the congress was passed as the Civil Rights Act in 1964.

 Last name 2

America became the first nation dedicated to the revolution of human rights. With the

Alliance for Progress and the Peace Corps, he brought American idealism to the aid of

developing countries. In addition, Kennedy presided over the continuation of the Apollo program

with the goal of landing a man on the moon before 1970.

Kennedy faced a number of foreign crisis, especially in Berlin and Cuba, which led to

him signing the first nuclear weapons treaty in October 1963. Taking the office in the midst of a

recession, he proposed sweeping income tax cuts thus raising the minimum wage. He instituted

new social programs to improve education, mass transit and healthcare. However, faced by

lukewarm relations with Congress, he only achieved part of his agenda: watered down tax cuts

and a modest increase in the minimum wage.

On November 21, 1963, President Kennedy flew to Fort Worth, Texas for a campaign

appearance. It is on November 22, along with his wife, that he was shot at while riding through

Dallas in a convertible. He was hit twice by the assassin, later identified as Lee Harvey Oswald.

Kennedy died at Parkland Memorial Hospital shortly thereafter, at the age of 46. He was the

youngest to be elected to the office and to die as an acting President.

 Last name 3

Works Cited

Frank Freidel and Hugh Sidey. “The Presidents of the United States of America.”

Copyright 2006. White House Historical Association.

8th Jan 2022. https://www.biography.com/us-president/john-f-kennedy