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welcome to watchmojo.com today we’re
profiling the 35th President of the
United States John Fitzgerald Kennedy
born in May of 1917 JFK suffered from
numerous medical problems throughout his
young adulthood even so when he
graduated University at the Choate
school of Connecticut in June 1935 his
yearbook tagline read most likely to
become president in 1941 Kennedy entered
the US Navy and participated in various
missions including those in the South
Pacific
this earned him the rank of lieutenant
as the commander of the motor torpedo
boat pt-109 he won several medals for
his military service including the Navy
and Marine Corps medal the Purple Heart
the asiatic-pacific campaign medal and
the world war ii victory medal after
returning from the war kennedy
considered becoming a journalist but
instead opted for politics in January
1960 Kennedy announced his intention of
running for president against Republican
Richard Nixon
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in September of that same year Kennedy
and Nixon appeared in the first
televised presidential debate in US
history this event was a milestone in
the history of both politics and
television because even at this time it
was obvious this new medium would play a
major role in national politics those
who watched the debate on TV saw Nixon
looking tense uncomfortable and pasty
not at all
while Kennedy appeared healthy and
relaxed this is a great country but I
think it could be a greater country it
is for this reason the majority of the
television audience concluded Kennedy
had won come November Kennedy beat Nixon
in a very close election winning 303
votes to Nixon’s 219 Kennedy was a
well-known order and one of his most
famous speeches came at his inaugural
address where he said ask not what your
country can do for you
at what you can do for your country
while his tenure as president was
decidedly short Kennedy nonetheless
dealt with numerous important events one
such event was that of the Bay of Pigs
another catastrophe JFK had to handle
was the Cuban Missile Crisis in October
of 1962 JFK was also instrumental in the
space program
he approached Khrushchev on two separate
occasions in regards to a joint venture
for space exploration
however Kennedy was assassinated before
the agreement could be finalized on
November 22nd 1963 during a motorcade
procession in Dallas Texas President
Kennedy was killed when he was shot by a
sniper’s rifle Lee Harvey Oswald was
arrested and charged in the
assassination of the president though to
this day there remain countless
conspiracy theories as to the actual
perpetrator of and reasons for Kennedy’s
death Kennedy was the youngest president
ever to died and was buried three days
after his assassination in Arlington
National Cemetery five years later his
brother Robert was also assassinated and
would be buried next to him later on
Jacqueline Kennedy was buried next to
him and most recently in August 2009
JFK’s brother Edward the line of the
Senate would also join his brothers
welcome to watchmojo.com today we’re
profiling the 35th President of the
United States John Fitzgerald Kennedy
born in May of 1917 JFK suffered from
numerous medical problems throughout his
young adulthood even so when he
graduated University at the Choate
school of Connecticut in June 1935 his
yearbook tagline read most likely to
become president in 1941 Kennedy entered
the US Navy and participated in various
missions including those in the South
Pacific
this earned him the rank of lieutenant
as the commander of the motor torpedo
boat pt-109 he won several medals for
his military service including the Navy
and Marine Corps medal the Purple Heart
the asiatic-pacific campaign medal and
the world war ii victory medal after
returning from the war kennedy
considered becoming a journalist but
instead opted for politics in January
1960 Kennedy announced his intention of
running for president against Republican
Richard Nixon
[Music]
in September of that same year Kennedy
and Nixon appeared in the first
televised presidential debate in US
history this event was a milestone in
the history of both politics and
television because even at this time it
was obvious this new medium would play a
major role in national politics those
who watched the debate on TV saw Nixon
looking tense uncomfortable and pasty
not at all
while Kennedy appeared healthy and
relaxed this is a great country but I
think it could be a greater country it
is for this reason the majority of the
television audience concluded Kennedy
had won come November Kennedy beat Nixon
in a very close election winning 303
votes to Nixon’s 219 Kennedy was a
well-known order and one of his most
famous speeches came at his inaugural
address where he said ask not what your
country can do for you
at what you can do for your country
while his tenure as president was
decidedly short Kennedy nonetheless
dealt with numerous important events one
such event was that of the Bay of Pigs
another catastrophe JFK had to handle
was the Cuban Missile Crisis in October
of 1962 JFK was also instrumental in the
space program
he approached Khrushchev on two separate
occasions in regards to a joint venture
for space exploration
however Kennedy was assassinated before
the agreement could be finalized on
November 22nd 1963 during a motorcade
procession in Dallas Texas President
Kennedy was killed when he was shot by a
sniper’s rifle Lee Harvey Oswald was
arrested and charged in the
assassination of the president though to
this day there remain countless
conspiracy theories as to the actual
perpetrator of and reasons for Kennedy’s
death Kennedy was the youngest president
ever to died and was buried three days
after his assassination in Arlington
National Cemetery five years later his
brother Robert was also assassinated and
would be buried next to him later on
Jacqueline Kennedy was buried next to
him and most recently in August 2009
JFK’s brother Edward the line of the
Senate would also join his brothers
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