JOHN F. KENNEDY

EARLY LIFE

• Kennedy was voted the "most likely to succeed"
• In September 1936, Kennedy enrolled at Harvard College

MILITARY SERVICE

• joined the U.S. Navy
• Kennedy received the Navy and Marine Corps Medal

POLITICAL EXPERIENCE

• Massachusetts's 11th congressional district in the House from 1947 to 1953
• served in the U.S. Senate from 1953 until 1960

ELECTION

• defeated Vice President and Republican candidate Richard Nixon in the 1960 U.S. presidential election.
• Youngest ever at 43

IN OFFICE

• Bay of Pigs Invasion
• Cuban missile crisis
• Space race

IN OFFICE

• building of the Berlin Wall
• Increased involvement in Vietnam
• African-American civil rights movement

THE ASSASSINATION

• Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas.
• On November 22, 1963.

THE ASSASSINATION CONT...

• Lee Harvey Oswald was accused of the crime
• Was later killed before the trail
• Some believe that it was a conspiracy

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