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- John Fitzgerald Kennedy (JFK) is born to Joseph P. and Rose Fitzgerald
-He was born in Brookline  Massachusetts
-He  is the second of nine children

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-JFK graduated from Harvard University.
- JFK graduated with a bachelor of science degree in international affairs.
-JFK was born into one of America’s wealthiest families.

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- Kennedy is wounded in the South Pacific
- Kennedy leads rescue operations
- Helps the surviving member of his crew swim to shore.

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JFK marries Jacqueline Bouvier in Newport, Rhode Island.
-He met her two years earlier at a dinner party in Georgetown
-Bouvier met then-Congressman John Kennedy at a dinner party in Washington.

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- JFK is elected Congressman from the Eleventh District Massachusetts at age 29
- He goes on to serve three terms in the U.S. House of Representatives

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-Kennedy becomes U.S. Senator.
-JFK narrowly defeats Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. in the Democratic senate race in Massachusetts.
-He is re-elected in 1958.

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-Kennedy has his second back operation.
-While he is recovering, he writes Profiles in Courage,
-JFK book  wins a Pulitzer Prize in 1957.

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-Kennedy is elected the 35th President of the United States at the age of 43
-Kennedy's presidential campaign was a family affair, funded by his father and with his younger brother Robert.
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-JFK establishes the Peace Corps,.
-A volunteer organization that will promote cultural understanding.
- The organization will provide provide support to developing countries.

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-President Kennedy's foreign policy was dominated by American confrontations with the Soviet Union.
-In 1961 he anxiously anticipated a summit with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev.
-Kennedy's continuation of Presidents Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower's policies of giving economic and military aid to South Vietnam left the door open for President Johnson's escalation of the conflict.