John
Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy
Helping The Poor
"If a free society
cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich."
- John F. Kennedy -35th President of the United States
John Fitzgerald
"Jack" Kennedy About this sound pronunciation (help·info) (May 29,
1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th
President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his death in 1963.
After military
service as commander of the Motor Torpedo Boats PT-109 and PT-59 during World
War II in the South Pacific, Kennedy represented Massachusetts' 11th
congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1947 to 1953
as a Democrat. Thereafter, he served in the U.S. Senate from 1953 until 1960.
Kennedy defeated Vice President and Republican candidate Richard Nixon in the
1960 U.S. presidential election. He was the youngest elected to the office, at
the age of 43,[2][a] the second-youngest President (after Theodore Roosevelt),
and the first person born in the 20th century to serve as president.[3] Kennedy
is the only Catholic president, and is the only president to have won a
Pulitzer Prize.[4] Events during his presidency included the Bay of Pigs
Invasion, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the building of the Berlin Wall, the Space
Race, the African-American Civil Rights Movement, and early stages of the
Vietnam War.
Kennedy was
assassinated on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas. Albeit Lee Harvey Oswald
was charged with the crime, he was shot and killed by Jack Ruby two days later,
before a trial could take place. The FBI and the Warren Commission officially
concluded that Oswald was the lone assassin. However, the United States House
Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) concluded that those investigations
were flawed and that Kennedy was probably assassinated as the result of a
conspiracy.[5] Kennedy ranks rather highly in public opinion ratings of U.S.
presidents. -Wikipedia