John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born on Mayo 29, 1917 at 83 Beal’s Street in Brookline, Massachusetts. His father was businessman/politician Joseph Patrick Kennedy and his mother was Philanthropist/socialite Rose Elizabeth Kennedy. JFK had four brothers, Joseph Patrick, Robert Francis, Edward Moore, and Joseph Jr. Kennedy, five sisters Rose Marie, Kathleen Agnes, Eunice Mary, Patricia Helen, and Jean Ann Kennedy (Life of John F. Kennedy1). John Kennedy lived in Brookline for ten years and attended the Edward Devotion School, the Noble and Greenough Lower School, and the Dexter School through fourth grade. In 1927, the Kennedy family moved to a stately twenty-room Georgia-style mansion at 5040 Independence Avenue in the neighborhood of Riverdale Bronx, New York City. Kennedy attended the …show more content…
Two years later, the family moved to 294 Pond field Road in the New York City. Kennedys spent their summers at their home in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts and Christmas and Easter at their winter home in Palm Beach, Florida. In September 1930, Kennedy now thirteen years old attended the Canterbury School in the New Milford, Connecticut. In Late April 1931, he required an appendectomy, after which he withdrew from Canterbury and recuperated at home (JFK in history 2).
In September 1931, Kennedy was sent to The Choate School in Wallingford, Connecticut for ninth through twelfth grade. In June 1934 Kennedy was hospitalized at Yale-New Haven Hospital where doctors thought he might have leukemia. He was admitted to Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, the ultimate diagnosis there was colitis. Kennedy graduated from Choate in June of the following year. For the school yearbook, of which he had been business manager, Kennedy was voted the most likely to succeed. In 1935 he made his first trip abroad