john f. kennedy

     

John Fitzgeral "Jack" Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to by his initials JFK, was the thirty-fifth President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963.

Trivia about john f. kennedy

  • He is the only president of the United States to be awarded the Purple Heart
  • Time magazine first mentioned him in 1939, when his father sent him on a diplomatic errand from London to Glasgow
  • Before George W. Bush, he was the last president to have both his parents attend his inauguration
  • 1917-1963
  • Steel companies that raised prices $6 a ton were forced to roll them back by this president
  • At 46 years, 177 days, he died at the youngest age of any president
  • On Nov. 24, 1963 Senator Mike Mansfield said, "A piece of each of us has died" the moment he was shot
  • The plane he used for his 1960 presidential campaign was named Caroline
  • Rose Fitzgerald
  • "Ask not what your country can do for you..."
  • On Jan. 14, 1963 he said, "The mere absence of war is not peace"
  • Because he said "Ich bin ein Berliner", not "Ich bin Berliner", it could have meant "I am a doughnut"
  • When asked how he became a hero, this president remarked, "It was involuntary. They sank my boat"
  • On May 29, 1963 Ann-Margret sang at this famous man's 46th, & last, birthday party
  • The Profile in Courage Award is presented on or near the anniv. of his birth; he would have been 80 May 29, 1997
  • He said “Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I’m (the) only person standing between Nixon & the White House”
  • was the youngest man to be elected president
  • On April 18, 1960 this Democratic presidential candidate said, "I don't think that my religion is anyone's business"
  • His delegates at the 1960 Democratic National Convention received PT 109 paperweights
  • In May 2001 Gerald Ford stopped into this president's library to pick up its Profiles in Courage Award
  • Seymour Hersh's "The Dark Side of Camelot" examines this president's administration & private life
  • Fewer than 120,000 popular votes separated Richard Nixon from this man in 1960
  • On November 8 he was elected our nation's first Roman Catholic president
  • "Why England Slept"
  • William Manchester's 1983 book about this president is titled "One Brief Shining Moment"
  • The day before taking office, Clinton prayed at this president's Arlington, Va. grave
  • This senator announced he was running for the presidency January 2, 1960
  • 1960
  • U.S. president:1961-1963
  • His death on Nov. 22, 1963 after riding through Dallas' Dealey Plaza shocked the world
  • May 29, 1917 in Brookline, Massachusetts
  • On Grandma's wall there's a picture of this president from his Navy days on a PT boat
  • In 1960 this Democrat spoke first in the first televised U.S. presidential election debate
  • When asked how he became a hero, this president replied, "It was involuntary. They sank my boat"
  • Sammy Cahn wrote new lyrics for "High Hopes" & it became this man's 1960 campaign song
  • Seen here, his is one of the most visited graves at Arlington
  • He was a U.S. senator when he married Jacqueline Bouvier in 1953
  • When asked how he became a war hero, this president said, "It was involuntary. They sank my boat"
  • His term as U.S. president was just 1,036 days
  • At a 1996 auction Jimmy Buffett paid $43,700 for a Jamie Wyeth lithograph of this president in a sailboat
  • Dean Rusk
  • May 29, 1917 in Brookline, Massachusetts
  • In 1961 this president appointed his brother-in-law Sargent Shriver as director of the Peace Corps
  • Abraham Ribicoff,Dean Rusk,Robert McNamara
  • In a 1963 speech at Vanderbilt University, he said, "Liberty without learning is always in peril"
  • 1940's Harvard yearbook lists this man's intended vocation as law
  • He won the popular vote in 1960 by just 113,057 votes
  • The "New Frontier" was the domestic program of his 1961-63 administration
  • In 1943 the 11 survivors of the sunken PT Boat 109 were led to rescue & safety by this future U.S. president
  • In 1957 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Biography
  • He also said, "Ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man"
  • (Cheryl of the Clue Crew at the Berlin Wall) In Berlin in 1963, this American said, "Democracy is not perfect, but we never had to put a wall up to keep people in"
  • In 1943 this PT-109 skipper helped save the lives of his crew & won a Purple Heart
  • This future president & his beautiful wife spent part of their 1953 honeymoon at the San Ysidro Ranch in Santa Barbara
  • "Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed..."
  • In 1962 Vaughn Meader's recorded impressions of this man sold a million copies in 2 weeks
  • "As We Remember Joe"
  • Fighting the sun at this man's inauguration, he declaimed, "The land was ours before we were the land's"
  • This president was 39 when he won a Pulitzer Prize
  • Columbia Point, Boston, Massachusetts
  • This U.S. president's yacht was called "Honey Fitz" after his maternal grandfather
  • Face it, he's on the front of the 2000 coin
  • This man gave final approval to the "Project Gnome" Dec. 1961 test detonation of a 3-kiloton nuclear device
  • His library has a desk that's an exact replica of the one that his son was photographed under in 1963
  • In 1962 Colin was one of the 16,000 military advisers dispatched to South Vietnam by this president
  • In May 1961 he vowed to land a man on the moon & return him safely to Earth by the end of the decade
  • 1974:William Devane
  • This president began appearing on the half dollar coin in 1964
  • In 1961:"Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country"
  • Thelonious Monk's Time magazine cover was pulled in 1963 for coverage of this man's death
  • His parade featured many types of missiles & a PT boat
  • 1st & only president listed by "The Book of Lists" as having smoked marijuana in the White House
  • Hickory Hill, which he later sold to his brother
  • "Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate"
  • "'Mister Sam' Rayburn is gone. Neither this house nor the nation is the same without him"
  • The Telstar Communications satellite relayed the first live TV pictures from the U.S. to Europe
  • This future president graduated cum laude from Harvard in 1940

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  • Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life. John F. Kennedy
  • Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind. John F. Kennedy
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