John F. Kennedy's Life

John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born on May 29, 1917 in Brookline, Massachusetts, the second of nine children. He was born to parents Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald and Joseph Patrick Kennedy, Sr. He attended private schools and enrolled in Princeton University. During the summer of his freshman year he traveled to London, England where he fell ill with jaundice. It took him two years for him to fully recover. He continued his studied at Harvard University and graduated with honors in 1940. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, John signed up with the Navy and became a Naval Commander. He had to leave the Navy in 1944 after he received malaria. Kennedy was elected to the Congress in 1946 in a Boston district and then he re-elected two times. In 1953, he was elected Senator of Massachusetts after defeating Henry Cabot Lodge. Also in 1953 John "Jack" Kennedy married Jacqueline Lee "Jackie" Bouvier on September 12 and together they had four children named Arabella Kennedy (August 12, 1956-August 12, 1956), Caroline Kennedy (November 27, 1957), John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Jr. (November 25, 1960-July 16, 1999), and Patrick Bouvier Kennedy (August 7, 1963-August 9, 1963.) He was inaugurated as President of the United States on January 20, 1961 after defeating Richard Milhous Nixon on November 9, 1960. He did not get a chance to serve a full term because on November 22, 1963 he was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald. Oswald did not go to court or to jail because of his own death two days later on November 24, 1963. He was shot by Jack Ruby. Note: Kennedy was President from 1961 to 1963 and the Vice President was Lyndon Baines Johnson.