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John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy

John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963) served in both houses of Congress before becoming the thirty-fifth president of the United States. His assassination shocked the world.

John F. Kennedy once summed up his time as "very dangerous, untidy." He was the child of two world wars, of the Great Depression, and of the nuclear age. "Life is unfair," he remarked. And so it was to Kennedy, heaping him with glory, burdening him with tragedy. Yet, he never lost his ...

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy

John Fitzgerald Kennedy 1917-63, 35th President of the United States (1961-63), b. Brookline, Mass.; son of Joseph P. Kennedy . Early Life While an undergraduate at Harvard (1936-40) he served briefly in London as secretary to his father, who was ambassador there. His Harvard honors thesis ...

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Kennedy, John F.

John F. Kennedy

Carl M. Brauer

TWENTY years after John F. Kennedy was assassinated, a public opinion poll indicated that he was rated best overall of the nine presidents since Herbert Hoover. Among five positive attributes surveyed, Kennedy "most inspired confidence in the ...

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