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Definition: Kennedy John Fitzgerald from The American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language
 

The 35th president of the United States (1961–1963). A US representative (1947–1953) and senator (1953–1960) from Massachusetts, he became the youngest man elected to the presidency (1960). Kennedy approved the failed invasion of the Bay of Pigs (1961) and forced Khrushchev to remove Soviet missiles from Cuba (1962). He also established the Peace Corps (1961) and advocated civil rights reform. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963.

John F. Kennedy photographed in the early 1960s Superstock SS

Kennedy, John F.

From Encyclopedia of United States - Latin American Relations
Keywords Cuba U.S. Presidents Asian Powers Born in Brookline, Massachusetts, in 1917, John Fitzgerald Kennedy (JFK) (1917–1963) became one of the most popular presidents in U.S. history. His tragic assassination on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas, shocked the world. While a degree of “mythology” surrounds historic interpretations of the Kennedy presidency, JFK's “Thousand Days” in office as the thirty-fifth president witnessed significant events and crises in U.S.–Latin American relations. The second son of Joseph Kennedy, a wealthy Boston businessman and President Franklin D. Roosevelt's ambassador to Great Britain, JFK grew to maturity in privileged circumstances. He attended private schools and graduated from Harvard University cum laude in 1940. At the beginning of World War II Kennedy received a commission as a naval officer and served until the end of the war in 1945. Joseph Kennedy had planned a career in politics for his eldest son, but when Joseph Jr. was killed in Europe…
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Full text Article John F. Kennedy: Civil Rights Message, June 11, 1963

From Ripples of Hope: Great American Civil Rights Speeches
President John F. Kennedy delivers a live civil...
Every American ought to have the right to be treated as he would wish to be treated, as one would wish his children to be treated. Although black leaders were initially skeptical of candidate John F. Kennedy’s commitment to equal opportunity, including his endorsement of a civil rights platform at…
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Full text Article John F, Kennedy

From Chambers Classic Speeches
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-63) was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, the second son of Joseph P Kennedy. He graduated from Harvard in 1940 and the same year published Why England Slept , a bestselling analysis of Great Britain's unpreparedness for war. He served as a torpedo boat commander in the…
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35th US president (1961-63). He was badly wounded while serving (1941-43) in the US Navy during World War 2. Kennedy served three terms as a Democrat representative from Massachusetts (1946-53). In 1953 he successfully ran for the Senate, and soon after married Jacqueline Lee Bouvier (later Onassis…
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Full text Article Kennedy, John F[itzgerald] (1917-63)

From Brewer's Dictionary of Irish Phrase and Fable
The 35th president of the United States. The glamour of Camelot reached its peak with Kennedy's visit to Ireland in the summer of 1963. His Catholicism, plangent ‘Irishness’, rugged good looks and charm raised him to literally iconic status: in the cathedral of Our Lady Assumed into Heaven and St…
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Full text Article Kennedy, John Fitzgerald 1917-1963

From Encyclopedia of Chinese-American Relations
Although often perceived as ushering in an era of change in international relations, the Presidency of John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1961–1963) brought little transformation in American policy regarding China. Kennedy and his Secretary of State Dean Rusk viewed China as the major threat to international…
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Full text Article Kennedy, John F (1917–1963)

From Freedom Facts and Firsts: 400 Years of the African American Civil Rights Experience
Arguably the most beloved American president of the twentieth century, John Fitzgerald Kennedy helped guide the nation through the Cold War and the struggle from civil rights at home. Despite being portrayed as having a strong commitment to civil rights in the wake of his assassination in 1963, …
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Full text Article Kennedy, John F. (1917–1963)

From Encyclopedia of Cuban-United States Relations
Before his election as the thirty-sixth president of the United States from 1961–1963, Kennedy represented the state of Massachusetts as a congressman and senator from 1946 to 1960. As president, Kennedy had an avid and detailed interest in foreign relations, often personally calling desk officers…
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Full text Article TOLERANCE

From Collins Dictionary of Quotations
For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise. THE BIBLE ; Paul, 3:67. No man can justly censure or condemn another, because indeed no man truly knows another. BROWNE, Sir Thomas Religio Medici (1643). There is, however, a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue. …
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Full text Article VICTORY

From Collins Dictionary of Quotations
You ask, what is our aim? I can answer that in one word: victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival. [Speech, House of Commons, May 1940] [As Colonel Killgore in Apocalypse Now , 1977] I love the smell…
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Full text Article Kennedy-Chen Conference 1961

From Encyclopedia of Chinese-American Relations
The Kennedy-Chen Conference of 1961 refers to a conference held July 31 and August 1, 1961 between the Republic of China (Taiwan) and the United States. The conference was held in Washington, DC. Chen Cheng, the Vice President and Premier of the Republic of China, visited the United States beginning…
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