John F Kennedy Research Paper

“And so my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country.” This is one of Kennedy’s most famous quotes. John Fitzgerald Kennedy, who was nicknamed Jack by his friends and family, was the 35th president of the United States. He was born in Brookline, Massachusetts on May 29th, 1917. The Kennedys were a wealthy Catholic family of Irish descent. In fact John was named after his maternal grandfather, John Francis Fitzgerald, who was a Boston mayor and was known as Honey Fitz. The Kennedys were a wealthy family Jack and his siblings attended the most elite schools, had luxury summer homes and servants. Despite all of this Jack was always a sick individual, in fact at the age of three he contracted

Here he played baseball, basketball, football and golf. He also enjoyed reading. He graduated from Choate and attended Princeton for a short-term in 1935, but after two months he had to leave due to gastrointestinal problems. Without delay he enrolled at Harvard in 1936. While attending Harvard, he had a difficult time fitting in because his political party and there was a lot prejudice against Irish Catholics in Boston at the time. It was during his years at Harvard that Jack’s father became the United States ambassador to England and the family moved there with the exception of Jack and Joe. Due to this, Jack visited many different countries in Europe. As a result Jack became captivated with European politics and world affairs, therefore when he returned to Harvard, he was ambitious to learn more about government and History. While in school Jack’s dad would constantly send his sons letters about the current events in Europe and what people feared would turn into a full war. His last year of college, Jack, decided to write his thesis into why Great Britain was not prepared to go to war with Germany;this would later be published and titled “Why England Slept.” Jack Kennedy graduated from Harvard in 1940. (JFK