Birthdate: May 29, 1917 - Death: November 22, 1963
Of Irish descent, he was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, on May 29, 1917. Graduating from Harvard in 1940, he entered the Navy. In 1943, when his PT boat was rammed and sunk by a Japanese destroyer, Kennedy led the survivors through perilous waters to safety.
He married Jacqueline Bouvier on September 12, 1953. In 1955, while recuperating from a back operation, he wrote Profiles in Courage, which won the Pulitzer Prize in history.
On November 22, 1963, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was killed as his motorcade wound through Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was the youngest man elected President and the youngest to die.
Extract from the Warren Report Chapter I - Summary and Conclusions: ... report of the facts relating to the assassination.
Narrative of Events
At 11:40 a.m., c. s. t., on Friday, November '22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy, Mrs. Kennedy, and their party arrived at Love Field, Dallas, Tex. Behind them was the first day of a Texas trip planned 5 months before by the President, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, and John B. Connally, Jr., Governor of Texas. After leaving the White House on Thursday morning, the President had flown initially to San Antonio where Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson joined the party and the President dedicated new research fa...