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​​ John F. Kennedy
 * In 1959, Fidel Castro(cuba) led a communist revolution in cuba, causing thousands of cubans to flee to the United States.


 * The U.S became worried as Cuba recieved increasing amounts of aid from the soviet union.


 * In 1961, President J.F.K approved of a plan to overthrow Fidel Castro's government with the help of Cuban exiles.

  John F Kennedy was a man of irish decent and was born in Brooklin, Massachusetts on May 29, 1917. He graduated from Harvard with a degree in science, and 3 years after entered the Navy becoming an intellegence officer. When he came back from the war, a hero to the fue survivors of his PT boat, he led himself to be a Democratic congressman. Shortly after he advanced to senate. He defeated Richard Nixon in the 1960 presidential election, it was one of the closest elections in American history. Kennedy was the second youngest person to become president, and was the first president born in the 20th century. He was 43 when he was put into office. During Kennedy's inaugural speach he started with "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. He gave this speach to show that he wanted people to step up and see what they can do for others instead of them being selfish and just wanting things for thembselves. Kennedy was the first and only catholic and the first Irish american president. He was also the only president to win the Pulitzer Prize(which is the award that is given too person with achivements news paper journalists, liturature and musicalo compositions.) Some events during his term include the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Berlin Wall building, the Space Race, African American Civil Rights Movementhg and the start of the Vietnam War.   Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963, by Lee Harvey Oswald, who was charged with murder but was shot two days after by Jack Ruby.



In loving memory of John F. Kennedy May 29th 1917-November 22, 1963