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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
1917 - 1963 (46 years)
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Name John Fitzgerald Kennedy Born 29 May 1917 Brookline, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA 
Gender Male Died 22 Nov 1963 Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States Buried 25 Nov 1963 Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, USA Person ID I486 My Family Tree | Example pages Last Modified 4 Jun 2012
Father Joseph Patrick Kennedy, Sr., b. 6 Sep 1888, East Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA , d. 18 Nov 1969, Hyannis Port, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA (Age 81 years) Mother Rose Fitzgerald, b. 22 Jul 1890, East Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA , d. 22 Jan 1995, Hyannis Port, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA (Age 104 years) Married 7 Oct 1914 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA Family ID F152 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Jacqueline Lee Bouvier, b. 28 Jul 1929, Southampton, Suffolk, New York, United States , d. 19 May 1994, New York, New York, USA (Age 64 years) Married 12 Sep 1953 St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Newport, Rhode Island, USA Last Modified 17 Mar 2014 Family ID F153 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Born - 29 May 1917 - Brookline, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA 
Married - 12 Sep 1953 - St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Newport, Rhode Island, USA 
Died - 22 Nov 1963 - Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States 
Buried - 25 Nov 1963 - Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, USA = Link to Google Earth Pin Legend 
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Photos 
John F. Kennedy's inaugural address 
The Kennedy family at the Kennedy Compound in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts (September 4, 1931)
Seated left to right: Robert, John, Eunice, Jean (on lap of) Joe, Sr., Rose (behind) Patricia, Kathleen, Joe, Jr. (behind) Rosemary. Ted was not born yet. The dog in foreground is "Buddy".
Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy pose with their nine children in Bronxville, N.Y. in 1938
From left are, seated: Eunice, Jean, Edward (on lap of his father), Patricia, and Kathleen. Standing: Rosemary, Robert, John, Mrs. Kennedy, and Joseph, Jr.
John F. Kennedy and Paul "Red" Fay in the South Pacific, World War II
Source: http://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/0lfMiHkoa06528yZ9n-fig.aspx
John F. Kennedy in uniform
John Kennedy was sworn into the U.S. Navy in 1941 at age 24 after previous rejections due to health problems including a bad back.
JFK and JPK Jr.
JFK/PP 83 Lt.(jg) John F. Kennedy and Ensign Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., circa May, 1942.
PT 109 crew
The crew of PT 109 in July 1943 with their skipper John Kennedy (far right).
John Kennedy at the controls of PT 109 
Lt. John F. Kennedy at the controls of PT 109 in the South Pacific 
John Kennedy in the Solomon Islands in 1943 
Lt. John F. Kennedy presented the Navy and Marine Corps medal for Gallantry in Action at Chelsea Naval hospital in Massachusetts 
Members of the PT 109 crew at a reunion in Hyannis Port in September 1944
(L-R) Red Fay, John Kennedy, Jim Reed, Barney Ross, Bernie Lyons. Kneeling is young Teddy Kennedy next to cousin Joe Gargan.
John and Jacqueline Kennedy cut wedding cake
12 September 1953 Hammersmith Farm, Newport, Rhode Island. Wedding of Jacqueline Bouvier and John F. Kennedy. Photograph in the Toni Frissell Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Documents 
Birth Certificate of John F. Kennedy
Headstones 
John F. Kennedy's headstone
Histories 
John F. Kennedy, World Leader
Author: Stephen G. Rabe
http://www.potomacbooksinc.com/Books/BookDetail.aspx?productID=163907John F. Kennedy and PT109
Recordings 
John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address January 20, 1961
http://archive.org/details/JFK_Inaugural_Address_19610120
Videos 
John F. Kennedy 1962 video
http://archive.org/details/SF151
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Notes - John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy (May 29, 1917 - November 22, 1963), often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963.
After military service as commander of the Motor Torpedo Boats PT-109 and PT-59 during World War II in the South Pacific, Kennedy represented Massachusetts's 11th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1947 to 1953 as a Democrat. Thereafter, he served in the U.S. Senate from 1953 until 1960. Kennedy defeated then Vice President and Republican candidate Richard Nixon in the 1960 U.S. presidential election. He was the youngest elected to the office, at the age of 43, the second-youngest President (after Theodore Roosevelt), and the first person born in the 20th century to serve as president. Kennedy is the only Catholic president, and is the only president to have won a Pulitzer Prize. Events during his presidency included the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the building of the Berlin Wall, the Space Race, the African American Civil Rights Movement, and early stages of the Vietnam War.
Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas. Lee Harvey Oswald was charged with the crime, but was shot and killed two days later by Jack Ruby before a trial could take place. The FBI, the Warren Commission, and the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) officially concluded that Oswald was the lone assassin, with the HSCA allowing for the possibility of conspiracy based on disputed acoustic evidence. Today, Kennedy continues to rank highly in public opinion ratings of U.S. presidents.
- John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy (May 29, 1917 - November 22, 1963), often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963.