DID YOU KNOW?
A Biography of
President John F. Kennedy
Article by Michael Joseph Lynch
President John F. Kennedy with his wife Jacqueline and daughter
became the U.S. ambassador to Great Britain, and for six months in 1938 son John served as his secretary.
Now, in the fall of 1941 Kennedy joined the U.S. Navy and two years later was sent to the South Pacific. By the time he was discharged in 1945, his older brother, Joe, who their father had expected would be the first Kennedy to run for office, had been killed in the war, and the family’s political standard passed to John, who had planned to pursue an academic or journalistic career.
John F. Kennedy himself had barely escaped death in battle. Commanding a patrol torpedo (PT) boat, he was gravely injured when a Japanese destroyer sank it in the Solomon Islands. Marooned far behind enemy lines, he led his men back to safety and was awarded the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps Medal for heroism. He also returned to active command at his own request.
This next article is on a person that was a very popular president in his time, and he was responsible for the USA being the first nation to land a man on the moon in 1969. While I was on vacation in Boston in 2011, I was able to visit his Presidential Museum and learned a lot about him. Also, I visited Arlington Cemetery in 2012 and seen his grave site.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was born May 29, 1917 in Brookline, Massachusetts. He was the 35th president of the United States (1961–63). He is the second of nine children and was schooled in the religious teachings of the Roman Catholic church and the political precepts of the Democratic Party.
His father was Joseph Patrick Kennedy, and his mother, Rose, who was the daughter of John F. Fitzgerald, one-time mayor of Boston. Joseph Kennedy