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Essay On Jfk Assassination

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Raul Castro

Ms.Ragno

Practical Writing T4

19 May 2016

Kennedy Assassinated

John F. Kennedy was born in May 29, 1917 in Brookline, Massachusetts. He was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination. JFK was born with parents who were members of two of Boston’s most prominent Irish Catholic political families. JFK throughout his childhood and teenage years had persistent health problems, he led a privileged youth where he attended private schools. JFK attended at Harvard University, he also traveled around Europe as his father's secretary. JFK had wrote a thesis about Britain's unpreparedness for war called “Why England Slept”, his thesis was then published later on in 1940. JFK joined the U.S. Navy in 1941 and two years later was sent …show more content…

A grieving Joe Sr. told Jack it was his duty to fulfill the destiny once intended for Joe Jr.: to become the first Catholic president of the United States. JFK had left the Navy to become a journalist by the end of 1944. Less than a year later, he was in Boston preparing for a run for Congress in 1946. Jack won his party’s nomination handily and carried the mostly working-class Eleventh District by nearly three to one over his Republican opponent in the general election. After nearly earning his party’s nomination for vice president in 1956, Kennedy announced his candidacy for president on January 2, 1960. JFK benefited from his performance in the first-ever televised debates, watched by millions of viewers. In November’s election, Kennedy won by a narrow margin–less than 120,000 out of some 70 million votes cast–becoming the youngest man and the first Roman Catholic to be elected president of the United States. Kennedy’s famous closing words expressed the need for cooperation and sacrifice on the part of the American people:

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