- John F. Kennedy was an American politician
- He served as the 35th president of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963
- Find more facts about him below
| Real name: | John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
John F. Kennedy Height
| | How tall was John F. Kennedy? | 183 cm / 6 ft 1 in | | Weight | 78 kg / 172 lbs Comment
| | Born: | 29 May 1917 Comment | | When did John F. Kennedy die? / Died | 22 November 1963 | | How many years did John F. Kennedy live? / Lived | 46 years | | Where was John F. Kennedy born? | Brookline, Massachusetts, USA | | Where did John F. Kennedy die? / Deathplace | Dallas, Texas, USA | | Nicknames: | JFK, Jack | | Zodiac sign: | Gemini |
John F. Kennedy Net worth 2024 (estimated)
| | How much is John F. Kennedy worth? | $100,000,000
| | Ascendant: | Libra | | Nationality: | American | | Hair color: | Brown | | Eyes color: | Greenish-grey |
Who was John F. Kennedy? / Facts
- Early life and education - Kennedy was born into a wealthy, political family in Brookline, Massachusetts.
He graduated from Harvard University in 1940, before joining the U.S. Naval Reserve the following year.
- Military career - During World War II, he commanded a series of PT boats in the Pacific theater and earned the Navy and Marine Corps Medal for his service, as well as the Purple Heart for being wounded.
- Political career - After a brief stint in journalism, Kennedy, a Democrat, represented a working-class Boston district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1947 to 1953.
He was subsequently elected to the U.S. Senate and served as the junior Senator from Massachusetts from 1953 to 1960.
- Presidency - In the 1960 presidential election, he narrowly defeated Republican opponent Richard Nixon, who was the incumbent vice president.
Kennedy served at the height of the Cold War, and the majority of his work as president concerned relations with the Soviet Union and Cuba.
- Writing - While in the Senate, Kennedy published his book, Profiles in Courage, which won a Pulitzer Prize.
- Foreign policy - Kennedy's administration included high tensions with communist states in the Cold War.
As a result, he increased the number of American military advisers in South Vietnam.
In April 1961, he authorized an attempt to overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel Castro in the Bay of Pigs Invasion.
Kennedy authorized the Cuban Project in November 1961.
He rejected Operation Northwoods (plans for false flag attacks to gain approval for a war against Cuba) in March 1962.
However, his administration continued to plan for an invasion of Cuba in the summer of 1962.
The following October, U.S. spy planes discovered Soviet missile bases had been deployed in Cuba.
The resulting period of tensions, termed the Cuban Missile Crisis, nearly resulted in the breakout of a global thermonuclear conflict.
The Strategic Hamlet Program began in Vietnam during his presidency.
- Domestic policy - Domestically, Kennedy presided over the establishment of the Peace Corps and the continuation of the Apollo space program.
He also supported the civil rights movement, but was only somewhat successful in passing his New Frontier domestic policies.
- Health - Kennedy also suffered from chronic and severe back pain, for which he had surgery.
He was also diagnosed with Addison's disease and hypothyroidism.
- Assassination - On November 22, 1963, he was assassinated in Dallas.
Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson assumed the presidency upon Kennedy's death.
Marxist and former U.S. Marine Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for the state crime, but he was shot and killed by Jack Ruby two days later.
The FBI and the Warren Commission both concluded Oswald had acted alone in the assassination, but various groups contested the Warren Report and believed that Kennedy was the victim of a conspiracy.
After Kennedy's death, Congress enacted many of his proposals, including the Civil Rights Act and the Revenue Act of 1964.
- Legacy - Kennedy ranks highly in polls of U.S. presidents with historians and the general public.
- Personal life - His personal life has also been the focus of considerable sustained interest following public revelations in the 1970s of his chronic health ailments and extramarital affairs.
Kennedy reportedly had affairs with a number of women, including Marilyn Monroe, Gunilla von Post, Judith Campbell, Mary Pinchot Meyer, Marlene Dietrich, Mimi Alford, and his wife's press secretary, Pamela Turnure.
Kennedy met his future wife, Jacqueline Lee Bouvier (1929–1994), when he was a congressman.
Charles L. Bartlett, a journalist, introduced the pair at a dinner party.
They were married a year after he was elected senator, on September 12, 1953.
- Children - After suffering a miscarriage in 1955 and a stillbirth in 1956 (their daughter Arabella), their daughter Caroline was born in 1957 and is the only surviving member of JFK's immediate family.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr., nicknamed "John-John" by the press as a child, was born in late November 1960, 17 days after his father was elected.
John Jr., a graduate of Brown University, died in 1999 when the small plane he was piloting crashed en route to Martha's Vineyard.
In 1963, months before JFK's assassination, Jackie gave birth to a son, Patrick. However, he died after 2 days due to complications from birth.
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Education
- London School of Economics (summer 1935, left due to jaundice)
- Princeton University (attended fall 1935, left due to jaundice)
- Harvard University (1940, cum laude)
- Stanford University (attended six months, business)
Quotes
Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the Earth.
[On joint US/Soviet scientific ventures] Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors.
In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon . . . it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.
Victory has a thousand fathers but defeat is an orphan.
Our problems are manmade. Therefore, they can be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
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Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, Rosemary Kennedy,
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Net worth: $100,000,000
