John F. Kennedy: Lindbergh-Type Hero

One of the nation’s youngest presidents to be inaugurated, John F Kennedy was born on May 29th, 1917 in Brookline, Massachusetts. He is the second son of nine children to Irish Catholic immigrants, Joseph and Rose Kennedy. His father Joseph was an ambitious millionaire who served under Roosevelt as Director of Security and Exchange and U.S ambassador in Britain, which helped fortify the Kennedys influence in politics. Growing up, John F. Kennedy’s poor health never prevented him from exceling in academics. He went to Chaote for high school and then attended Princeton University before he fell ill and then transferred to Harvard. He would graduate with a degree in International Affairs. His senior thesis inspired his novel, Why London Slept and continued writing other books like Profiles of Courage and a Nation of Immigrants. Despite his heath conditions, he joined the Navy in WWII as a PT boat commander and received many awards for his service and bravery (Deahl).

John F. Kennedy is known as one of the most famous people in history. His life began on May 29, 1917, in Brookline, Massachusetts. He was born into a wealthy and prominent family that gave him a very privileged childhood. While growing up, John attended private schools, including Canterbury and Choate. In 1936, he enrolled at Harvard. After graduating, Kennedy joined the U.S. Navy in 1941. He served there for a total of four years and then left to run for Congress.

John F. Kennedy was born May 29, 1917 in Brookline, Massachusetts. He went to college at Harvard. He was in the navy during WW2 before he was president. He was also a senator. His father was an ambassador and his grandfather was in politics. They influenced JFK to get into politics.

John F. Kennedy was born in Brookline, Massachusetts on May 29, 1917, the second of nine children. He was a US statesman and our 35th president. He came from a family with a history of good politics. As an infant he lived in a comfortable but modest frame house in that suburb of Boston. As the family got larger and the father's income and fortune increased, the Kennedys moved to larger, more impressive homes. Their first home was in Brookline, followed by the suburbs of New York City. John F. Kennedy had a happy childhood that was full of family games and sports. He attended many different private elementary schools, which were all non parochial. He later spent a year at Canterbury School in New Milford,

JFK was born on May, 29th, 1917 in Brookline, Massachusetts, a quiet, clam suburb in Boston. As a child John F. Kennedy was mostly referred to the name "Jack," by friends and family. His parents, Rose and Joseph Kennedy were too involved with social rank and their place in Boston's high standard society, but made an effort to afford Jack and his siblings with the best opportunities out there. By far, the Kennedys enjoyed a high standard. Life that included all types of fun activities like sailing, summer homes, amazing meals, and high quality boarding schools. Despite the family’s wealth and importance, Jack's childhood was not always so great. In the beginning of 1919, as a young child JFK started to suffer from a continuous stream of illnesses, most of them were life threatening. Just three months before his third birthday, Jack got scarlet fever and was sent to the hospital, where he had to stay for two months. Even though he made a full recovery, Jack's scarlet fever only caused the domino effect of even more health problems. During his childhood and early teenage years, he suffered from a bunch of diseases: here are a few of the many…diphtheria, appendicitis, whooping cough, jaundice, asthma, and pneumonia.

May 29, 1917 in Brookline, Massachusetts, the nations first born president in the twentieth century. Kennedy grew up in a wealthy home with wealthy parents. Much like our current president-elect, except in this case, Kennedy was much cooler and not irritating. Kennedy grew up in a home with political history because his grandfather was Mayor of Boston. Kennedy’s father made his wealth in the stock market and other big businesses. His father working in the stock market made him able to take his money out before the big crash of 1929. Thus, still being a wealthy man and having his nine children enjoy their life as a wealthy family. The Kennedy family grew up privileged going to expensive private schools, going around the seas or lakes in their boats and visiting their summer homes where all the fun happened.

To truly understand John F. Kennedy, one must first understand his early life. John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, on May 29, 1917 (“John”). John F. Kennedy had always looked towards the future (“John”). He had already made plans for his presidency way before when he was even elected (“John”). In the election of November, Kennedy had won by a margin of just twelve-thousand votes out of the almost 70 million cast (“John”). Kennedy was not a caring student until 1940, his senior year at Harvard University (“John”). In 1952 Kennedy had decided to run for the United States senate (“John”). Again, he was victorious. Jack's first two years in the senate were spent by keeping his promise to his Massachusetts (“John”).

It all started May 29, 1917 in Brookline, Massachusetts, the day John F. Kennedy was born. Jack as the Kennedy’s called him was born to the parents Joseph P. and Rose Kennedy. Jack may not have been the first born in the family, but he certainly wasn’t the last. He was born as the second child out of nine children in the family, and they all were successful. All eleven of the Kennedy’s lived in a clapboard house in Brookline, a town just outside of Boston. Jack had a lot to live up to though, being the second born and also being named after Rose’s father John F. Fitzgerald, or Honey Fitz as some referred to him as. Honey Fitz was a popular politician and a former mayor of Boston.

John F. Kennedy was born on May 29, 1917, in Brookline, Massachusetts. When John wasn 't even three years old, he got scarlet fever and one month later he recovered. He went to a Catholic boy 's boarding school. He excelled at English and History, which he enjoyed, and nearly flunked Latin. Kennedy was very bookish in high school. After graduating from Choate and spending one semester at Princeton, he transferred to Harvard University in 1936. His grandfather served as a congressman and mayor of Boston. His father was a successful banker who made a fortune in the stock market after World War I. John bought into his father 's philosophy that winning was everything. He served in both the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate before his presidency. Kennedy decided to research and write a senior thesis on why Britian was so unprepared to fight Germany in World War II. Shortly after graduation from Harvard, he joined the Navy and was severely injured. A Japanese rammed into their boat, killing two of Kennedy 's men. Kennedy saved Patrick McMahon despite his injuries. Kennedy 's brother died a year later when his plane blew up during a dangerous mission in Europe. After the war, Kennedy wanted to be a writer or a teacher, but Joe 's death changed everything. In 1952, Kennedy challenged Republican Henry Cabot Lodge for his seat in the U.S. Senate.

On April 15, Kennedy launched a mission known as the Bay of Pigs Fiasco. The CIA had informed Kennedy of a plan they had to train Cuban exiles to invade Cuba. The goal was to overthrow Fidel Castro and establish a non-communist government. The invasion occurred on April 15, 1961, when the cuban exiles set off to bomb their homeland. The fourteen hundred exiles were eventually captured  or killed. Kennedy paid over $53 million to get the captured exiles back. The Bay of Pigs invasion was a disaster, and it embarrassed Kennedy greatly. This wasn’t the last crisis of Kennedy’s. What became known as the Cuban Missile Crisis took place in October of 1962. An American spy plane secretly spotted nuclear missile sites being built by the Soviet Union in Cuba. Kennedy did not want the Soviet Union or Cuba to know that he found out about the missiles. After much thought, Kennedy decided to place a ring of ships around Cuba. He called it a quarantine because he wanted to prevent the Soviets from bringing in more military supplies. Kennedy made demands for Nikita Khrushchev to remove his missiles from Cuba. They both decided that a nuclear war would cause great devastation. A public deal was made between the two countries that the Soviets would dismantle the weapons site in exchange for a pledge from the United States not to invade Cuba. A secret deal was made between the Nikita and Khrushchev; the United States also agreed to remove nuclear missiles from Turkey. The Signing of the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty took place on August 5, 1963. This treaty limited the production of nuclear weapons by the Soviet Union, the United States and the United Kingdom, and it gained back President Kennedy’s reputation with the American

The book is organized by the beginning of his life to the end and all the accomplishments he made in his life. The subject of this book is the story of how a man became the youngest president and all the things he did until his death. The author’s objective is to tell readers how JFK became President. She makes the

Author Mark J. White. Title: Kennedy: A Cultural History of an American Icon. Published by Bloomsbury Publishing Pic 175th Fifth Avenue New York NY 10010 USA. First Published in 2013.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born in Brookline, Massachusetts on May 29, 1917, the second oldest in a family of nine children. His great grandparents had come to the United States from Ireland in the mid-1800s after a food shortage caused severe poverty in that country. Although their families had not come to the United States with much money, both of John Kennedy's grandfathers became political leaders in Boston. One of them, John Fitzgerald, was elected mayor in 1905. John Kennedy's father, Joseph Patrick Kennedy became a very wealthy businessman, an adviser to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the United States Ambassador to Great Britain from 1938 to 1940.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born into a family that would eventually have 11 people in it. John was born in Boston, Massachusetts in a small part of town called Brookline. He played football and did community service as a kid. John’s Father believed that if the kids were willing to do public

John F. Kennedy is the leader I will be discussing in my paper I will be talking about his life, before and during his presidency, what type of leadership he was; also what his leadership says about what type of followers he had. John F. Kennedy was born in Brookline, Massachusetts May 29, 1917 Rose and Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. was a very illness child and his mother make a annotation on John notecard the early age sicknesses that JFK experienced from that was a contagious bacterial disease, fever and varicella. By the time he was three John get very sick with the disease strep throat and by the situation could have even told his life because it was a life-threatening disease. The Kennedys’ moved to another house when Jack was three years old his father worked hard to become a successful business man but it was difficult for him to fit in when it was college at Harvard because he was an Irish Catholic. John went to Choate a boarding school for adolescent boys in Connecticut and he was very popular. Jack was only a mediocre student, graduating 65th in a class of 110 students he don’t do well in school what effects his studies. After he graduated from school he went to Harvard in 1936 and was not good at sport like his brother Joe. Before he became a senior in College Kennedy wrote a thesis on why Great Britain was unprepared for war with Germany it was later