John F. Kennedy - Early career. John Kennedy began to make speeches around Massachusetts in 1945 and the following spring ran in a. Navy lieutenant John F. Kennedy returned to the United States in 1944 following his heroic exploits in the Pacific as a commander of a PT boat rammed by a Japanese destroyer. AP/WIDE WORLD.
President John F. Kennedy is arguably one of America’s greatest U.S. Presidents. Elected in 1960, he brought an energy and grace to the Oval Office. His humanity in pursuing civil rights in the United States elevated him to a visionary level of both Presidents Lincoln and Washington.
John F. Kennedy Jr. went on to become a successful attorney and magazine publisher before his death at age 38. He and his wife, Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, were killed in a plane crash in July 1999....
John F. Kennedy, in full John Fitzgerald Kennedy, byname JFK, (born May 29, 1917, Brookline, Massachusetts, U.S.—died November 22, 1963, Dallas, Texas), 35th president of the United States (1961–63), who faced a number of foreign crises, especially in Cuba and Berlin, but managed to secure such achievements as the Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty and the Alliance for Progress.
Elected in 1960 as the 35th president of the United States, 43-year-old John F. Kennedy became one of the youngest U.S. presidents, as well as the first Roman
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