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John Fitzgerald Kennedy, also known as JFK, was the 35th president of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. He was the youngest person elected president, at 43 years, and the first Catholic president. Kennedy served at the height of the Cold War, and the majority of his foreign policy concerned relations with the Soviet Union and Cuba. A member of the Democratic Par…
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TN: Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks y John Kennedy: la historia de una lucha que cambió para siempre a Estados Unidos
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University of Montana Athletics: Coach Kennedy Radio Show premieres Wednesday, live from The Den
What's Up Newp: PHOTOS: President John F. Kennedy Sailing In Newport on August 26, 1962
“...if there were a third Bay of Pigs, it could happen.”
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“offensive weapons and associated materiel”
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Fox News: EXCLUSIVE: Kennedy Center board moves to name grounds ‘President Donald J. Trump Plaza'
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Snopes.com rated the claim “A screenshot authentically shows a July 2026 post by U.S. President Donald Trump in which he shared an artificial intelligence-generated image of himself standing in front of the White House with Mahatma Gandhi, former President John F. Kennedy and a person dressed like Jesus Christ.” Fake.
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Snopes rated the claim “A screenshot authentically shows a July 2026 post by U.S. President Donald Trump in which he shared an artificial intelligence-generated image of himself standing in front of the White House with Mahatma Gandhi, former President John F. Kennedy and a person dressed like Jesus Christ.” Fake.
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The Guardian: Workers remove Trump’s name from Kennedy Center after court rulings
Lead Stories rated the claim “Real video shows the name "Donald J. Trump" being removed from "The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts"” AI Takedown.
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Full Fact rated the claim “A never-before-seen clip of John F. Kennedy shows him saying: “I have made it clear to the Israeli leadership that I do not support their expansionist ideas. The indigenous people of that land have rights that cannot be ignored. We must find a fair solution, not one dictated by any single group.”” There’s no evidence JFK said this. Media forensics experts say the video and audio were likely made using AI..
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The Guardian: Democratic lawmaker sues Trump over Kennedy Center’s name change
The Guardian: John F Kennedy’s grandson Jack Schlossberg announces run for US House seat
The Guardian: John F Kennedy grandson says Julia Fox’s bloody Jackie Halloween costume ‘disgusting’
The Guardian: Oliver Stone to testify at John F Kennedy assassination hearing
Snopes rated the claim “A JFK assassination file declassified in March 2025 contained a letter in which John F. Kennedy Jr. called then-U.S. Sen. Joe Biden a "traitor."” False.
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Lead Stories rated the claim “The CIA concluded actress Penelope Keith assassinated President John F. Kennedy.” Edited Doc.
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Snopes rated the claim “A photo authentically shows a 1963 letter signed by former U.S. President John F. Kennedy, in which he wrote, "I have information that will lead to the arrest of Hillary Clinton."” Fake.
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PolitiFact rated the claim “Files reveal that John F. Kennedy Jr. wrote a 1994 letter calling then-Sen. Joe Biden “a traitor” before Kennedy’s 1999 death.” False.
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The Guardian: Trump releases thousands of pages on John F Kennedy assassination
FACTLY rated the claim “US President Donald Trump ordered the release of the John F. Kennedy assassination video.” MISLEADING.
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Snopes rated the claim “A photo authentically shows John F. Kennedy and his longtime friend Kirk LeMoyne "Lem" Billings.” Miscaptioned.
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PolitiFact rated the claim “Donald Trump ordered the “Dallas Police Department and Dallas Attorney General’s Office to begin the preparation for the arrest” of a suspect in John F. Kennedy’s assassination.” False.
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Claimed: ““When John F. Kennedy was president, 6% of American kids had a chronic health condition. Today it is 60%."” — rated Unsupported by FactCheck.org.
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USA Today rated the claim “Image shows John F. Kennedy Jr. attending 'debate'” False.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “Former U.S. President John F. Kennedy wrote in a 1939 letter to his father, "Palestine was hardly Britain's to give away."” Correct Attribution.
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AP News rated the claim “President John F. Kennedy said seven days before he was assassinated” False.
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“Europe's Anti-American Obsession”
In 2002, Robert Dallek wrote an extensive history of Kennedy's health based on a collection of Kennedy–associated papers from 1955 to 1963, including X-rays and prescription records from Travell.
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The last day before expiration of the Act
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In 1966, White House physician Janet Travell disclosed that Kennedy also had hypothyroidism.
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The guarantees Kennedy proposed in his June 1963 speech became federal law, when President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act
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Awarded Jane Addams Children's Book Award (1964).
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Died 1963-11-22.
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Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas
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A junta of senior military officers executed the coup which led to the arrest and assassinations of Diem and Nhu on November 2
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Kennedy signed NSAM 263 ordering the withdrawal of 1,000 military personnel by the end of the year following the third recommendation of the McNamara–Taylor mission report, which concluded that the training program for t
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And Kennedy signed it on October 7, 1963
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Kennedy accepted a grant of armorial bearings from the Chief Herald of Ireland, received honorary degrees from the National University of Ireland and Trinity College Dublin, attended a State Dinner in Dublin, and was con
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Won Presidential Medal of Freedom presented by Lyndon B. Johnson (1963).
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Kennedy intervened when Alabama Governor George Wallace blocked the doorway to the University of Alabama to stop two Black students, Vivian Malone and James Hood, from attending
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Kennedy, at the high point of his rhetorical powers, delivered the commencement address at American University
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Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act of 1963, which amended the Fair Labor Standards Act and abolished wage disparity based on sex
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Kennedy signed the first nuclear weapons treaty
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“Dick Nixon is the victim of the worst press that ever hit a politician in this country. What they did to him in the Helen Gahagan Douglas race was disgusting.”
“But the question is how we will compromise and with whom. For it is easy to seize upon unnecessary concessions, not as means of legitimately resolving conflicts but as methods of “going along.”
“Some of my colleagues who are criticized today for lack of forthright principles – or who are looked upon with scornful eyes as compromising “politicians” – are simply engaged in the fine art of conciliating, balancing and interpreting the forces and factions of public opinion, an art essential to keeping our nation united and enabling our Government to function.”
“Senators, we hear, must be politicians – and politicians must be concerned only with winning votes, not with statesmanship or courage. Mothers may still want their favorite sons to grow up to be President, but according to a famous Gallup poll of some years ago, they do not want them to become politicians in the process.”
“O God, thy sea is so great and my boat is so small.”
“...we must think and act not only for the moment but for our time. I am reminded of the story of the great French Marshal Lyautey, who once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow-growing and would not reach maturity for a hundred years. The Marshal replied, 'In that case, there is no time to lose, plant it this afternoon.'”
Career landmark: Participated in commencement at the American University (tournament / event).
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Congress passed the Community Mental Health Act, which provided funding to local mental health community centers and research facilities
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Germany was enduring a time of particular vulnerability due to Soviet aggression to the east as well as the impending retirement of West German Chancellor Adenauer
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Kennedy signed Executive Order 11063, which prohibited racial discrimination in federally supported housing
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CIA U-2 spy planes took photographs of the Soviets' construction of intermediate-range ballistic missile sites in Cuba
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Kennedy signed the United Nations bond issue bill to ensure U
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Kennedy signed into law a bill abolishing the mandatory death penalty for first degree murder in the District of Columbia, the only remaining jurisdiction in the United States with such a penalty
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Kennedy formally authorized escalated involvement when he signed the National Security Action Memorandum (NSAM) – "Subversive Insurgency (War of Liberation)
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The Kennedy administration sold Israel a major weapon system, the Hawk antiaircraft missile
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And his first budget in 1961 resulted in the nation's first non-war, non-recession deficit
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Kennedy won approval of the Manpower Development and Training Act, a three-year program aimed at retraining workers displaced by new technology
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Won Laetare Medal (1961).
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Awarded Time Person of the Year (1961).
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Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of the Orthodox Crusaders of the Holy Sepulchre (1961).
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Kennedy met with Khrushchev in Vienna and left the meeting angry and disappointed that he had allowed the premier to bully him, despite the warnings he had received
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Eight CIA-supplied B-26 bombers left Nicaragua to bomb Cuban airfields
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Kennedy signed Executive Order 10925, which required government contractors to "take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed and that employees are treated during employment without regard to their race
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Into late 1961, disagreements existed among Kennedy's doctors concerning the balance of medication and exercise.
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By financing the South Vietnam army, increasing the number of U
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Career landmark: President of the United States (1961–1963).
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Suggested international cooperation in space
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Kennedy prioritized passing five bills: federal assistance for education, medical insurance for the elderly, housing legislation, federal aid to struggling areas, and an increase in the federal minimum wage
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His condition may have had diplomatic repercussions, as he was reportedly taking a combination of medications to manage the pain during the 1961 Vienna Summit.
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Authorized attempts to overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel Castro in the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion and Operation Mongoose
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Kennedy announced his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination
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Dropped 10% shortly after the administration's action on the steel industry took place
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Career landmark: President-elect of the United States (1960–1961).
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Campaign: 1960 presidential election.
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Kennedy co-sponsored the Cape Cod National Seashore bill with his Republican colleague Senator Leverett Saltonstall
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Career landmark: United States senator (1959–1960).
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Introduced a controversial bill to eliminate from the National Defense Education Act of 1958 a provision requiring loyalty oaths and affidavits from aid recipients
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Kennedy was re-elected to the Senate, defeating his Republican opponent, Boston lawyer Vincent J
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Awarded Pulitzer Prize for Biography for Profiles in Courage (1957).
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Awarded Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (1957).
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Kennedy joined the Senate's Select Committee on Labor Rackets (also known as the McClellan Committee) with his brother Robert, who was chief counsel, to investigate racketeering in labor-management relations
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Career landmark: United States senator (1957–1959).
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Published Profiles in Courage, a book about U
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Kennedy gained control of the Massachusetts Democratic Party, and delivered the state delegation to the party's presidential nominee, Adlai Stevenson II, at the Democratic National Convention in August
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Career landmark: United States senator (1955–1957).
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Kennedy voted in favor of the Saint Lawrence Seaway which would connect the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean, despite opposition from Massachusetts politicians who argued that the project would hurt the Port of Boston e
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When the Senate voted to condemn Joseph McCarthy for breaking Senate rules and abusing an Army general, Kennedy was the only Democrat not to cast a vote against him
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Career landmark: United States senator (1953–1955).
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Against Republican three-term incumbent Henry Cabot Lodge Jr
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Awarded Grand Officer of the Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity (1951).
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Career landmark: Participated in commencement at the University of Notre Dame (tournament / event).
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For contributing to the "tragic story of China whose freedom we once fought to preserve
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Career landmark: United States representative (1947–1953).
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Years after Kennedy's death, it was revealed that in September 1947—at age 30 and during his first term in Congress—he was diagnosed by Sir Daniel Davis at The London Clinic with Addison's disease.
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As a candidate for Massachusetts lieutenant governor, but Joe Sr
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Won Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (1945).
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Won American Defense Service Medal (1945).
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Won American Campaign Medal (1945).
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Won World War II Victory Medal (1945).
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Kennedy retired from the Navy Reserve on physical disability and was honorably discharged with the full rank of lieutenant
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Kennedy's older brother, Joseph Jr
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Won Navy and Marine Corps Medal presented by Frederick L. Conklin in Chelsea Naval Hospital (1944).
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Awarded Purple Heart presented by William Halsey Jr. in Chelsea Naval Hospital (1943).
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And joined the ONI staff in Washington, D
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With the help of Alan Goodrich Kirk—the director of the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) and former naval attaché to Joseph Sr
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Studied at Stanford Graduate School of Business (1940–1941).
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Kennedy graduated cum laude from Harvard with a Bachelor of Arts in government, concentrating on international affairs
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Kennedy completed his thesis, "Appeasement in Munich", about British negotiations during the Munich Agreement
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Studied at Harvard College, Bachelor of Arts (1936–1940).
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Kennedy attempted to enter the Army's Officer Candidate School
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Studied at Princeton University (1935–1936).
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He then spent the spring of 1936 working as a ranch hand outside Benson, Arizona under Jack Speiden.
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Studied at Choate Rosemary Hall (1931–1935).
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During his years at Choate, Kennedy was beset by health problems that culminated with his emergency hospitalization in 1934 at Yale New Haven Hospital, where doctors suspected leukemia.
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Studied at Canterbury School (1930–1931).
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Studied at Dexter School (1927).
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When he toured Boston wards with his grandfather Fitzgerald during his unsuccessful gubernatorial campaign
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Studied at Edward Devotion School (1922).
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Three months prior to his third birthday, in 1920, Kennedy came down with scarlet fever, a highly contagious and life-threatening disease, and was admitted to Boston City Hospital.
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Outside Boston in Brookline, Massachusetts, to Joseph P
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Born 1917-05-29.
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