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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

JFK

THE 35TH PRESIDENT

JFK BIO

  • He was born on May 29, 1917
  • His parents are Rose and Joseph Kennedy
  • He had eight siblings
  • There names are Robert, Ted,Eunice,Rosemary
  • Joseph,Jean,Patricia and Kathleen Kennedy

JFK BIO

  • He attended Harvard
  • After he graduated he enlisted into the army and was a boat driver
  • After he came home he was awarded the Narvy Medal and the Medal of Honor
  • After he brother died he was elected senator then he married Jacqueline Bouvier

JFK BIO

  • After that he wrote a book about his life and won a Pulitzer Prize
  • In 1960 Deomacrates elected him to run in the race for president
  • On november 8, 1960 he beat Richard Nixon and was elected president
  • Then his second son was born

JFK BIO

  • President Kennedy also started the apollo project to send people to the moon
  • One of the reasons he started the project was because the Soviet Union was beating them in the space race
  • He aprroved the 22 billion dollar project with the approval of congress
  • Their major problem was racism and segregation all over The US
  • In 1954 congress had ruled that segregation would in public rules will end

JFK BIO

  • But there were still many schools in the south that suffered segregation
  • There was also racial problems on buses,businesses,restaurants and other public places
  • Other leaders such as Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. with John F. Kennedy
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JFK BIO

  • On November 21, 1963 the president flew to Texas to give a speech about politics
  • As he was driving and people admiring him shots rang out and it him and his wife
  • He was rushed to the hospital but died when he arrived after few hours later Lee Harvey Oswald
  • Later a man by the name of Jack Ruby Killed Oswald

INTERESTING FACTS

  • He met Martin Luther King Jr.
  • He helped end segregation
  • He loved the James Bond books and movies
  • One of his legs were shorter than the other
  • President Kennedy bought 1,200 Cuban cigars before he banned Cuban Imports

MORE INTERESTING FACTS

  • Kennedy had four different assassination attempts before Dallas
  • Kennedy had donated money from his salary to a charity every year
  • He was so obsessed with his weight he brought a bathroom scale where ever he went
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