John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy 

John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy was born on May 29, 1917. His parents are Joseph Patrick Kennedy Sr. and Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald. His father was a businessman and a politician, his mother was a philanthropist and a socialite. He was born into a big family with 5 sisters and 3 brothers. His brothers were Joseph Patrick Kennedy Jr., Robert Francis Kennedy, and Edward Moore Kennedy and Joe Jr. was killed in action during WWII while Bobby and Ted were both prominent senators. His sisters were Rose Marie Kennedy, Kathleen Agnes Kennedy, Eunice Mary Kennedy, Patricia Helen Kennedy and Eunice founded the special Olympics while Jean served as a United States Ambassador to Ireland from 1993 to 1998. John lived in lower Brooklyn for ten years and attended Edward Devotion School, Noble and Greenough Lower School and Dexter School, through the Fourth grade. In 1927, the family moved to 5040 Independence Avenue in Riverdale, Bronx, New York City. Two years later, they moved to 294 Pondfield Road in Bronxville, New York, where he was a member of Scout Troop. The Kennedy family spent summers at their home in Hyannisport, Massachusetts, and Christmas and Easter holidays at their winter home in Palm Beach, Florida. For the 5th through 7th grade, he attended Riverdale Country School, a private school for boys. For 8th grade in September 1930, he attended Canterbury School in New Milford, Connecticut. In late April 1931, he required an appendectomy, after which he withdrew from Canterbury and recuperated at home. In September 1931, Kennedy was sent to The Choate School in Wallingford, Connecticut, for his 9th through 12th grade years. In September 1936, he enrolled at Harvard College. He tried out for football, golf and swimming teams and earned a spot on varsity swimming. In 1939 Kennedy toured Europe, the Soviet Union, the Balkans and the Middle East in preparation for his Harvard senior honors thesis. He then went to Czechoslovakia and Germany before returning to London on September 1, 1939, the day Germany invaded Poland.

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