Andrea D'Ambrosio
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
" Ask not what your
Country can do for you,
ask what you can do for
your Country! "
J.F.K.
BIOGRAPHY
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Kennedy was born in Brooklin, Massachusetts on May 29, 1917.
His father was US ambassador in the United Kingdom, his mother
studied in Harvard University .
During World War II , he served in the US Navy and he was later
rewarded with a medal.
He was elected to the US Congress in 1946 , and the US Senate in
1952 .
He married Jacqueline Bouvier on september 12,1953. The couple had
for children .
Kennedy beat his opponent Richard Nixon in the 1960 presidential
election .
Kennedy was assassinated on November 22,1963 in Dallas,Texas. Lee
Harvey Oswald was the prime suspect in the murder, he was kill two
days later.
PRESIDENCY
Kennedy was a member of the United States
Democratic Party .
He was the youngest president ever elected.
Kennedy was the youngest president ever
elected.
He was also the first Roman Catholic President
He was the first president to win a Pulitzer Prize.
He created a plan called the NEW FRONTIER.
He faced the Cold War and the Cuban Missile
Crisis.
He fought inequality of the sexes
He produced the Civil Rights Act
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-CUBAN CRISIS He approved the CIA's plan to invade Cuba. The
invasion was a failure , the Cuban Missile Crisis began.
Cuba ordered a lot of nuclear missiles from the Soviet
Union .
Kennedy Kennedy ordered US Navy ships to surround
Cuba.
He ended the crisis peacefully by making an agreement
with the Soviet Union.
They agreed that the Soviet Union would stop selling
nuclear weapons to Cuba. In return, the U.S. promise to
never invade Cuba again.
Soviet Union vs United
States of America
NEW FRONTIER
The term New Frontier was used by Kennedy in his
acceptance speech in the 1960 United States
presidential election to the Democratic National
Convention at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
as the Democratic slogan to inspire America to
support him.
"We stand today on the edge of a New
Frontier -— the frontier of the 1960s, the
frontier of unknown opportunities and
perils, the frontier of unfilled hopes and
unfilled threats. ... Beyond that frontier are
uncharted areas of science and space,
unsolved problems of peace and war,
unconquered problems of ignorance and
prejudice, unanswered questions of
poverty and surplus."
EQUAL RIGHTS FOR
WOMEN
THE PRESIDENTIAL COMMISSION ON THE
STATUS OF WOMEN
the Presidential Commission on the Status of
Women was an commission established by
Kennedy to investigate questions regarding
women's equality in education, in the workplace,
and under the law. The commission, chaired by
Eleanor Roosevelt , was composed of 26 members.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed
discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or
national origin.
ASSASINATION
Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963, in Dallas,
Texas. He was being driven through the city in an open top car,
along with the Governor of Texas. As the car drove into Dealey
Plaza, shots were fired. Kennedy was hit twice and died.
Lee Harvey Oswald
was the prime
suspect in the
murder,Oswald
was killed two days
later by Jack Ruby.
his body was laid to rest in Arlington, Virginia.