John Fitzgerald Kennedy was the thirty-fifth president, as well as the youngest, and the first one to be born in the twentieth century. Many will remember him as a symbol of youth, hope, charming and witty. Bringing hope to a nation that needed it more than ever and he was able to deliver in the clutch. John F. Kennedy was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, only a few miles away from Boston, on May 29, 1917. He was brought up during the great depression, but was fortunate enough to be apart of a catholic family, in which both of his parents happened to be very wealthy. As a baby he was never very healthy, before even the age of three, he had suffered from illnesses such as, whooping cough, measles, chicken pox, and worst of all Scarlet fever, which nearly took his life. Luckily he took a turn for the better and …show more content…
On October, 22, 1962, Kennedy announced the U.S. had discovered the Soviet Union was building “offensive missile sites” in Cuba that could cause a nuclear strike on the Western Hemisphere. He claimed that he wouldn't allow such a thing to happen. Members of the Soviet Union agreed that the missiles must be removed, but they didn’t agree on how they should be. Robert Kennedy pledged in a secret meeting with Anatoly Dobrynin, that the U.S. would remove the ballistic missiles from Turkey. The Soviet Union decided to compromise and remove the missiles, and Kennedy ended the naval blockade of Cuba which would avoid violent conflict of the Cold War. John F. Kennedy was one of the very few presidents that terms got cut short. On November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas in an attempt to raise Democratic support in the south, Kennedy was assassinated in an open limousine. Lee Harvey Oswald was the man who pulled the trigger and ended Kennedy’s life. Two days later, a man named Jack Ruby shot and killed Oswald. The following day, Kennedy was buried in Arlington National