John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born May 29, 1917 at 83 Beals Street, Brookline, Massachusetts, to Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., a businessman and politician, and Rose Kennedy(née Fitzgerald), a philanthropist and socialite. His paternal

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Kennedy planned to attend Yale Law School after auditing courses on business law at Stanford, but canceled when American entry into World War II seemed imminent. In 1940, Kennedy attempted to enter the army's Officer Candidate School. Despite months of

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In April 1945, Kennedy's father, who was a friend of William Randolph Hearst, arranged a position for his son as a special correspondent for Hearst Newspapers;

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On December 17, 1959, a letter from Kennedy's staff which was to be sent to "active and influential Democrats" was leaked stating that he would announce his presidential campaign on January 2, 1960. On January 2, 1960, Kennedy announced his candidacy for the

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John F. Kennedy was sworn in as the 35th president at noon on January 20, 1961. In his inaugural address, he spoke of the need for all Americans to

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President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas at 12:30 p.m. Central Standard Time(CST) on Friday, November 22, 1963. He was in Texas on a political trip to smooth over frictions in the

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JFK's elder brother Joe had been the family's political standard-bearerand had been tapped by their father to seek the presidency. Joe's death during the war in 1944 changed that course

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