John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born at 83 Beals Street in Brookline, Massachusetts on May 29, 1917, to Rose Fitzgerald and Joseph P. Kennedy (Barbara, H.1992). John was named after his parental grandfather, John Fitzgerald. The Mayor of Boston during 1906-1908. John was the second of four boys born to an Irish Catholic family with children of nine. When John was young, the Kennedy family had moved from Boston to New York. As John’s dad became wealthier. John had moved schools more often, also moving towards richer parts of New York. John had eventually graduated from Choate in 1935 of age 18 (World Book. 2003). After high school John had went to England as his father became the ambassador. His father took sons, John and Robert with him, as well as his wife and daughters, Kathleen and Rosemary Kennedy. After the trip John had enrolled at Princeton University but devolved Jaundice and had left shortly after Christmas. As the New Year started John had entered Harvard University in 1936 where he majored in government and international relations. Four years later John graduated from Harvard University with a science degree.

In 1941 Kennedy joined the United States Navy and eventually became an intelligence officer. As the U.S.A entered World War II, Kennedy was transferred to the Motor Torpedo Boat where he was given command of the boat. When Kennedy’s team was sent to the South Pacific in August 1943, His boat was struck by a Japanese destroyer ship. Two of Kennedy’s men were killed in the battle but the other six managed to embrace on what was left of Kennedy’s PT boat. After five hours of the hit, Kennedy and his crew managed to get to an island five miles away from where the original hit took place. In that year Kennedy had suffered from a major back injury and was sent back to the States for treatment and surgery. Eventually when Kennedy had recovered he had been promoted to the rank of a lieutenant and became a PT instructor in Florida (Simkin, J. 2012).

One day when Joseph Kennedy (father of John F. Kennedy) convinced Kennedy that he should run for Congress in Massachusetts’s eleventh congressional district, and had won in 1946. This was just a start in Kennedy’s political career. As the years went on, Kennedy, a Democrat, served three terms (six years) in the House of Representatives, and in 1952 he was elected to the U.S. Senate. Soon after being elected Senator, John F. Kennedy met his future wife at a dinner party in Washington, D.C in 1951. Eventually on September, 12, 1953, Kennedy married Jacqueline "Jackie" Lee Bouvier Fitzgerald, the daughter of the New York Times Financer (World Book. 2003).

John F. Kennedy was eventually becoming a popular politician. In 1956 he was almost chosen to run for vice president, but then Kennedy no less than decided to run for president in the next election. Kennedy than began working long hours and began traveling all around the country for campaigning and had eventually all paid off. On July, 13th Kennedy asked Lyndon B. Johnson to run for vice president, thinking he was the right man for the job. Finally in the general election on November 8, 1960, Kennedy defeated the Republican vice president Richard M. Nixon in a very close race. At the age of 43, Kennedy was the youngest man ever elected president and the first Catholic ever elected. When Kennedy became president he had worried about the possibility of a nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union. In October 1962, An American U-2 spy plane had secretly photographed nuclear missile sites being constructed by the Soviet Union on the island of Cuba. President Kennedy did not want the Soviet Union to know he had discovered the missiles so he had kept quiet about it. After many long and difficult meetings, Kennedy decided to place a ring of ships around Cuba. The aim of this was to prevent the ships from bringing in more military supplies. Eventually a deal was agreed to in which the Soviets would dismantle the weapon sites in exchange for a pledge from the United Sates that they will not invade Cuba. In a separate deal that remained secret for more than 25 years was that the U.S. would remove their nuclear missiles from Turkey (Simkin, J. 2012).

President Kennedy also wanted democracy and freedom for the whole world. One of the main things President Kennedy did was create the Peace Corps. Through this program that still exists today, American’s could volunteer to work anywhere were assistance is needed. They could help in many ways such as education, farming, health care and construction. President Kennedy was also eager for the U.S. to lead the way in towards space. The Soviet Union was ahead of the United States, But President Kennedy was determined that the U.S. could catch up. President Kennedy was the first president to ask Congress to approve more than twenty two billion dollars towards the Apollo project, which was the goal of landing an American Man on the moon before the end of the decade. President Kennedy also dealt with the racial issue in America. President Kennedy made it a law that Blacks and whites should attend school together. However there were many schools that did not obey this law.

At about 12.30 p.m. President Kennedy’s presidential limousine entered Elm Street, Dallas (Simkin, J. 2012). Soon afterwards shots were fired out. President Kennedy was hit by bullets that hit him in the head and the left shoulder. Another bullet hit John Connally in the back. Ten seconds after the first shots had been fired the president's car accelerated off at high speed towards Parkland Memorial Hospital. Both men were carried into separate emergency rooms. Connally had wounds to his back, chest, wrist and thigh. Kennedy's injuries were far more serious. At 1 p.m. President Kennedy was declared dead. Within two hours of the killing, a suspect, Lee Harvey Oswald, was arrested. Throughout the time Oswald was in custody, he stuck to his story that he had not been involved in the assassination. On November 24th while Oswald was being transported by the Dallas police from the city to the county jail, Oswald was shot dead by Jack Ruby.