John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born on May 29, 1917 in Brookline,
in the state of Massachusetts. He is the descendant of an Irish Catholic family
who immigrated to the United States in the nineteenth century. This is the
second of nine children. The richness of John Kennedy and his desire to become
president from his father Joseph Kennedy; it was an ambitious businessman who
became a millionaire fast enough but more or less honest. After becoming U.S.
ambassador to London, his dream is to become the first Catholic president of
the United States. But due to some agreement with Hitler, he will never achieve
his goal. The death of Joe Jr. (his older brother) John will make the wearer
the political ambitions of the ambassador. He entered Harvard University in
1936 in international relations until 1940. During this period, many will
travel to London, where his father was ambassador to the U.S...
In 1941, a few months before the war in the United States,
Kennedy joins the Navy. In August 1943, Lieutenant John Kennedy controls the PT
109; a torpedo launched must intercept and destroy a Japanese convoy of
military equipment. The mission will be a disaster, the ship will be sunk and
John Kennedy with a dozen survivors will swim for several hours during the
night in order to take refuge on a desert island.
Three days later, the lieutenant and the most valid leave to
swim to find an island inhabited sailors. Once found, the natives are
responsible for to warn the nearest American base. This adventure is the young
lieutenant Kennedy a hero in the eyes of America. The story made the New York
Times and Boston newspapers, Joseph Kennedy being enabled to give more
publicity to be the case.
In 1946, Kennedy ran for the Siege of Boston in the House of
Representatives. Kennedy is a shaky and timid yet to be elected without a
problem and even re-elected in 1948 and 1950. He criticized the foreign policy
by highlighting the weakness of the federal government against the communist threat.
In 1952, it aims to be elected to the Senate seat. And it's a Kennedy little
relation with that of 1946, which defeated on its own, ground Cabot Lodge.
A year later, September 12, 1953, John Kennedy married
Jacqueline Lee Bouvier, a journalist at the New York Times, the couple had
three children: Caroline (born November 27, 1957), John (born November 25,
1960) and Patrick (stillborn in August 1963). In 1956, Kennedy decided to run
for the Democratic vice -chair for the presidential elections of 1956. Kennedy
will be beaten with only six votes. Finally, Stevenson defeated by Eisenhower.
This defeat, one of John Kennedy, will be born one ambition: the 1960
presidential election. In the spring of that year, it is a very sharp Kennedy
appearing before the nation. The Republican convention invests surprise Richard
Nixon , then Vice President of the United States.
It is with the shortest margin century John F. Kennedy was
elected the 35th President of the United States, in fact, only 100,000 votes
separate the two candidates, but the U.S. electoral system is such that in
terms of status, Kennedy has a large majority. After four years of effort,
Kennedy finally came to power and became one of the youngest presidents of the
United States (he is 43 years old, only Theodore Roosevelt was elected younger
than 42 years). This is the first Catholic president of the U.S. He was
inducted President of the United States Earl Warren (President of the Supreme Court)
in January 1961.
The policy of Kennedy, who was to bring Western forces face
blocks east, but striving to achieve a peaceful balance, began to bear fruit. Unfortunately,
due to a small parliamentary majority, John Kennedy could not implement all the
reforms desired in terms of U.S. domestic politics.
Despite his young age, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was faced
with one of the most difficult crisis of the Cold War: The Cuban missile crisis.
This was a two-finger trigger another world war (and possibly atomic) : The
Cuban missile crisis , the Vietnam War.
It's Friday, November 22, 1963 at 11:40, under a bright sun
that the president and first lady of the United States descended from Air Force
One (Presidential aircraft ) at the airport in Dallas (Love Field) . The
presidential couple quickly welcomed the crowd up front, accompanied by Texas
Governor John Connelly and his wife in the black Lincoln. The presidential
motorcade leaving the airport and through the city of Dallas for lunch at the
Trade Mart, escorted by 12 bikers from the Dallas police, everyone welcomes the
president. There seemed to be no doubt about the popularity of Kennedy.
Although the previous day, anti- Kennedy leaflets were distributed in Dallas,
Arriving at Dealy Plaza, the driver slowed his pace until almost eerily stop
while gunshots rang out. The president is shot in the head and the governor
appears injured, the car accelerates again and disappears under the bridge and
takes the direction of Parkland Memorial Hospital. We had to shoot the president;
right there in front of hundreds of people came to cheer and television
cameras.
The news dispatches a new 13 h: the President of the United
States of America has been shot by a bullet. Father Oscar Huber was
administered the last rites. Many witnesses (80%) say they heard several
gunshots coming from different places; such evidence will be supported by the
Abraham Zap ruder film. Immediately after Kennedy was shot in the head, many
witnesses rushed to a small fence. Among them, a policeman who later claimed to
have been certain that the fatal shot was fired from this place (behind the fence).
But all are stopped by a man claiming to belong to the secret services and will
never have the opportunity to push forward their investigations. 80 % of
controls (100 + people) claim that the fatal shot was fired from the fence
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