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Language         : English
Subject          : Social Studies
Title            : John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Grade            : 92
School System    : Ballston Spa High School
Country          : USA
Author Comments  : This essay is just a basic outline of JFK
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Date             : Handed in January 1996
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A.  Family and Educational Background

		John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born of May 29, 1917 and was the second son of nine children of 
	Joseph Patrick Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy.  The ancestors before him were of 
	Wexford County in Ireland.  John F. Kennedy's father served as first chairman of the 
	Securities and Exchange Commission and a US ambassador to Great Britain during Franklin D.
	Roosevelts administration.  His mother was the daughter of John F. Fitzgerald who was also
	a political figure.
		John F. Kennedy attended elementary schools in Brookline and Riverdale, 
	Massachusetts until the age of thirteen.  After that, he was sent to the Canterbury School
	in New Milford, Connecticut.  Later, he transferred to the Choate Academy in Wallingford, 
	Connecticut and graduated at eighteen.  For a short period of time, he attended he 
	attended college at Princeton but left because he had developed a case of jaundice.  In 
	1936, he enrolled in Harvard and majored in international relations and in government.  
	After graduating in 1940, he enrolled in the Stanford University graduate business school 
	and dropped out six months later.  Soon after, he joined the navy.

B.  Political Background

		Kennedy ran for the US House of Representatives in 1946 and took his seat in 
	Congress in 1947 and was reelected two more times in 1948 and in 1950.  In 1952, with help 
	from his family, Kennedy campaigned for the Senate and won.  In June of 1956, Kennedy ran 
	for Vice President only to lose to Estes Kefauver of Tennessee.  After his loss, Kennedy 
	began a new campaign for the Presidency.


C.  Presidential Elections

		Kennedy's running mates for the Presidency in 1960 were Richard Nixon and Harry Byrd.
	One of the major issues being debated at the time was the Cold War with The Soviet Union.
	Kennedy's good looks, wealth, and his public debates on television helped him to win over 
	Nixon and Byrd.  Kennedy had captured 303 electoral votes over Nixon who had 219 votes and
	Byrd who had 15 votes.  He also had 114, 673 more popular votes than Nixon.

D.  The Presidency

		One of the major problems happening in the US during Kennedy's administration was 
	the demand for equal rights for blacks.  In 1961, a group of blacks and whites went to 
	Montgomery, Alabama to test segregation laws.  After riots broke out, US Marshals were 
	sent in to set things back in order.  A year later, James Meridith enrolled at the 
	University of Mississippi and became the first black to study there.  Soon after his 
	enrollment, riots broke out and President Kennedy ordered three-thousand federal troops to
	restore order.  Two people were killed during the riots.  In 1963, more riots and protests
	broke out in different areas of the country.  Kennedy asked Congress to pass legislation 
	for civil rights laws.
		Two major foreign problems were the Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban missile 
	crisis.  In 1961, Cuban exiles invaded Cuba at the Bay of Pigs.  They were promised 
	military aid from the US by President Kennedy refused to give them any.  Fidel Castro's 
	forces stopped the invasion easily and captured the exiles.  Most of them were later 
	exchanged for US nonmilitary supplies.
		The Cuban missile crisis happened in 1962.  Cuban leaders were afraid that the US 
	would attack so they asked the USSR for more military aid.  They responded by sending 
	nuclear missiles and the materials necessary to build launch sites.  When the US found out
	about the missiles,  President Kennedy responded by ordering a naval blockade to stop 
	further shipments.  President demanded that the USSR take all their missiles and equipment
	off the island.  For a time, we were at the brink of nuclear exchange.  They agreed to 
	remove everything if the US promised not to attack Cuba.  President Kennedy agreed to the 
	terms and the USSR took out all their weapons.


E.  Assassination

		In 1963, Kennedy began his reelection campaign, visiting different parts of the 
	country.  While riding in an open limousine through Dallas, Texas, Kennedy was shot in the 
	head and the neck at 12:30 PM on November, 22.  Efforts to revive him failed as they 
	brought him to Parkland Memorial Hospital.  The assassin was captured hours after the 
	assassination in theater nearby; his name was Lee Harvey Oswald, a former US Marine.  He 
	was then later killed by a nightclub owner, Jack Ruby.  John F. Kennedy was buried in 
	Arlington National Cemetery.

F.  Presidential Rating
	
		John F. Kennedy would probably be considered a near great President.  He was a well
	liked President and almost everyone loved him.  He handled some foreign affairs well like 
	the Cuban missile crisis but also messed up some others like the Bay of Pigs invasion. He 
	also began to get Congress to pass civil rights laws for blacks.  John F. Kennedy was one 
	of out greater Presidents.
 
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