REMEMBERING JFK



JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
(May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963)

The last of the eight presidents of the United States till date to die in office and the fourth to be assassinated, Massachusetts born Democrat John Fitzgerald Kennedy was the 35th occupant of the White House, the first president to be born in the 20th century and the youngest to be elected, from 1961...

The 1940 Harvard graduate and the WWII naval hero entered politics from Boston in 1947, and was elected to the Senate from Massachusetts in 1953. Bagging the Pulitzer Prize for his book "Profiles In Courage", JFK narrowly beat the sitting vice-president Republican Richard Nixon at the 1960 presidential polls...

JFK's tenure coinciding with the Cold War ensured him being focused on countering communist ideologies of Europe in vogue then spearheaded by the Soviet Union, not to mention the Bay Of Pigs debacle, the South Vietnam and to the Cuban Missile Crisis. JFK will always be remembered for his success in preventing a nuclear war in 1962 against the USSR, and for the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which got senatorial ratification in October 1963...

Despite his rather short stint, JFK ranks high amongst historians, analysts and the general public. The head of state who established the Peace Corps, Alliance for Progress with Latin America, who was a staunch supporter of the civil rights movement and who was a signatory to the first nuclear weapons treaty, JFK lost his life to the bullet fired by a former US marine Lee Harvey Oswald, this day, 1963...

Though his thousand days in office weren’t anything spectacular and with most of his projects completed by his successors, JFK still remains the most popular US president, the story of his family being a mix of achievements and tragedies...

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