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John Fitzgerald Kennedy Biography

John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born on May 29th 1917 at Brookline (Massachusetts). Joseph Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald were his parents. John F. was their second son. During World War II, their oldest son lost his life, when an airplane exploded above the Canal.

Kennedy studied at Harvard and after he had finished, he also had to serve in the war, but he survived and because of his heroism he saved the lives of his crew.

He was elected as a president in November 1960, after a less than easy election contest. He defeated Richard Nixon and became the youngest (43) to be elected to the White House in American history 'till then. In contrast to Al Smith in 1928 (first Catholic presidential candidate) Kennedy was elected despite of being Catholic.

The 35th, first Catholic, president ended his inaugural address on January 20th in 1961 with the following words: "My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man". During his presidency he passed two crises which had to do with Cuba caused by placing of intermediate range missiles in Cuba by the Russians. Other one was in 1961 about the Berlin Crisis, the problem of West and East Berlin was not solved and it became even worse in August 1961 because of the construction of the Berlin Wall.

On November 22^nd 1963 Kennedy visited Dallas with his wife Jackie. He was shot during a riding tour in an open limousine and died after about half an hour. According to the official Warren-report, Lee Harvey Oswald killed the president, but there is serious doubt about this because of many strange things. For example the dying of many witnesses, the killing of Oswald and the problem of how one bullet could have killed the president and also hit the Governor of Texas: the problem of the miracle bullet.

The sad fact is that John F. Kennedy was just forty six years old and left a wife and two children. Camelot had fallen again.