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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: A Brief Summary

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born in Brooklyn, Massachusetts on May 29 of 1917. His father was a very important ambassador of the United States in the United Kingdom, and his mother was the daughter of John Fitzgerald who was a congressman and the mayor of Boston. He had nine siblings and he was the second of them, all of them studied in private schools because they’re family was in a very good economic position. In 1927 he moved to Bronx with all of his family to a mansion that had 20 bedrooms. He had a lot of recognitions in all of his schools, but the most important one is that he had an award for the most likely in the class to become president. In 1937 he got admitted to Harvard law school, studying the career of international relations and in 1938 he traveled to the United Kingdom …show more content…

Zapruder's film captured 26.6 seconds of the traveling motorcade carrying President Kennedy on 486 frames of Kodak Kodachrome II safety film. Zapruder's film captured the fatal head shot that struck President Kennedy as his limousine passed almost directly in front of Zapruder and Sitzman's position, 65 feet (20 m) from the center of Elm Street. His recording was the proof number one who let everyone do their theories and that let the police do their job at finding out what really happened in the accident. To summarize what happened to Kennedy is that president was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, at 12:30 pm Central Standard Time on Friday, November 22, 1963, while on a political trip to Texas to smooth over frictions in the Democratic Party between liberals Ralph Yarborough and Don Yarborough (no relation) and conservative John Connally. Traveling in a presidential motorcade through downtown Dallas, he was shot once in the back, the bullet exiting via his throat, and once in the head. Kennedy was immediately taken to Parkland Hospital for emergency medical treatment, where he was pronounced dead 30 minutes

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