John F. Kennedy

 John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), frequently alluded to by his initials JFK, was an American lawmaker who filled in as the 35th leader of the United States from 1961 until his death close to the furthest limit of his third year in office. Kennedy served at the tallness of the Cold War, and most of his work as president concerned relations with the Soviet Union and Cuba. A Democrat, Kennedy addressed Massachusetts in the two places of the U.S. Congress preceding his administration. 

Naturally introduced to the conspicuous Kennedy family in Brookline, Massachusetts, Kennedy moved on from Harvard University in 1940 preceding joining the U.S. Maritime Reserve the next year. During World War II, he told a progression of PT boats in the Pacific theater and acquired the Navy and Marine Corps Medal for his administration and war chivalry. After a short stretch in news coverage, Kennedy addressed an average Boston area in the U.S. Place of Representatives from 1947 to 1953. He was along these lines chosen for the U.S. Senate and filled in as the lesser congressperson for Massachusetts from 1953 to 1960. While in the Senate, Kennedy distributed his book, Profiles in Courage, which won a Pulitzer Prize. In the 1960 official political decision, he barely crushed Republican rival Richard Nixon, who was the officeholder VP. Kennedy's humor, appeal, and youth notwithstanding his dad's cash and contacts were incredible resources in the mission. Kennedy's mission acquired force after the primary broadcast official discussions in American history. Kennedy was the primary Catholic chosen president. 

Kennedy's organization remembered high pressures with socialist states for the Cold War. Subsequently, he expanded the quantity of American military consultants in South Vietnam. The Strategic Hamlet Program started in Vietnam during his administration. In April 1961, he approved an endeavor to topple the Cuban administration of Fidel Castro in the bombed Bay of Pigs Invasion.Kennedy approved the Cuban Project in November 1961. He dismissed Operation Northwoods (plans for bogus banner assaults to acquire endorsement for a conflict against Cuba) in March 1962. Be that as it may, his organization kept on anticipating an intrusion of Cuba in the mid year of 1962. The next October, U.S. spy planes found Soviet rocket bases had been sent in Cuba; the subsequent time of pressures, named the Cuban Missile Crisis, almost brought about the breakout of a worldwide atomic struggle. He likewise marked the main atomic weapons settlement in October 1963. Kennedy directed the foundation of the Peace Corps, Alliance for Progress with Latin America, and the continuation of the Apollo program fully intent on handling a man on the Moon before 1970. He additionally upheld the social liberties development, yet was just fairly fruitful in passing his New Frontier homegrown strategies. 

On November 22, 1963, he was killed in Dallas. VP Lyndon B. Johnson accepted the administration upon Kennedy's demise. Communist and previous U.S. Marine Lee Harvey Oswald was captured for the state wrongdoing, however he was shot and killed by Jack Ruby two days after the fact. The FBI and the Warren Commission both finished up Oswald had acted alone in the death, however different gatherings challenged the Warren Report and accepted that Kennedy was the survivor of a trick. After Kennedy's passing, Congress instituted a significant number of his proposition, including the Civil Rights Act and the Revenue Act of 1964. Notwithstanding his shortened administration, Kennedy positions exceptionally in surveys of U.S. presidents with students of history and the overall population. His own life has likewise been the focal point of extensive supported interest following public disclosures during the 1970s of his ongoing wellbeing illnesses and extramarital issues. Kennedy was the latest U.S. president to have been killed just as the latest U.S. president to pass on in office.

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