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John F. Kennedy: JFK  
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These are some quick facts about the 35th President of the United States John F. Kennedy.

	Born 5/29/17 in Brookline, Massachusetts
	Previous experience: Congressman, Senator, author
	Political Party: Democratic
	Vice President: Lyndon B. Johnson
	Term of office: 1/20/61-11/22/63
	Nickname: JFK
	His leadership during the USS PT-109 incident during the Second World War in the South Pacific was a turning point in his life.
	Kennedy represented the state of Massachusetts from 1947 to 1960 as a Congressman and then Senator
	Kennedy (Democrat) was elected president of the United States in 1960, at age 43, against Richard Nixon (Republican), in one of the closest elections in American history.
	He is the only Roman Catholic to be elected president of the country.
	Major events during his presidency include the Bay of Pigs invasion, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the building of the Berlin Wall, the Space Race, early events of the Vietnam War, and the American Civil Rights Movement.
	John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas, United States.
	Lee Harvey Oswald, charged with the crime, was himself murdered, two days later, by Jack Ruby - before an Oswald trial could be convened.
	The Warren Commission concluded that Oswald had acted alone in killing the president. However, the House Select Committee on Assassinations, later, concluded that there may have been a conspiracy. For the public, at large, the entire subject remains controversial and shrouded in mystery with multiple allegation theories.
	The assassination, itself, proved to be a defining moment in U.S. history due to its traumatic impact on the psyche of the nation and its ensuing political fallout, a historical fallout that influenced, and continues to influence, the temperament of American society.
	President Kennedy is now regarded as an icon of American hopes and aspirations to ever new generations of Americans.
	He was married to Jacquelin Bouvier (later Jacqueline Onassis). Known as "Jackie".
	He had two children: Caroline and John ("John-John").

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