John F Kennedy was born on May 29th 1917 at Brookline. His father Joseph Kennedy was an ambitious politician, who became from son of a pubkeeper to a millionaire. He married the daughter of the mayor of Boston, Rose Fitzgerald. John F. was their second son. During the 2nd World War their oldest son lost his life, when his airplane exploded above the Canal.
On November 22. 1963, when he had passed his first thousand days in office, John F Kennedy was killed by an assassin as he was during the motorcade through Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was the youngest man elected President; he was the youngest to die.
Kennedy studied at Harvard and after he had finished, he also had to serve in the war
In 1952 he became senator of Massachusetts. In 1958 he won reelection in Massachusetts by 875,000 votes, the largest majority in the state's history. He was elected for president in November 1960, after a less than easy election contest. He defeated Richard Nixon and became the youngest (43) to be elected to the White House in American history 'till then.
The 35th, first Catholic, president ended his inaugural address on January 20th in 1961 with the following words: "My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man".
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