John fitzgerald kennedy

John fitzgerald kennedy

1. personal life

   • comes from a family of 9
     • he grew up in a very competitive environment.
       • was born on May 29, 1917, in Brookline, Massachusetts.
       • Childhood in the Kennedy household was shaped largely by the influence of JFK's father, Joseph, an ambitious man who would achieve great success both in business and politics.
       • JFK spent his early childhood in brookline. He attended the Prestigious Noble and Greenough lower school - A very rich school
         • with father Joe Sr.'s business ventures concentrated in New York and Hollywood, living in Boston no longer made sense, and in September 1927 the family moved to a rented mansion in Riverdale, New York.
           • For three years, JFK went to the Riverdale School; this was followed by a year at the Catholic Canterbury School, in New Milford, Connecticut.
             • in the fall of 1931, he enrolled in Choate, a Connecticut boarding school dominated by the old Yankee aristocracy
               • while at Choate, JFK was rather rowdy and disobedient and he often found him and his friends in trouble with school authorities,
       • the family would often have ambitious political conversations at the dinner table

2. career

   • Elected in 1960 as the 35th president of the United States, 43-year-old John F. Kennedy became the youngest man and the first Roman Catholic to hold that office.
   • Abandoning plans to be a journalist, John left the Navy by the end of 1944. Less than a year later, he was back in Boston preparing for a run for Congress in 1946.
     • september 12 1953 he married the beautiful jacqueline