John F. Kennedy Biography

John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was assassinated at 12:30 p.m. Central Standard Time on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was fatally shot by a sniper while traveling with his wife Jacqueline, Texas Governor John Connally, and Connally's wife Nellie, in a presidential motorcade. A ten-month investigation from November 1963 to September 1964 by the Warren Commission concluded that Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone, and that Jack Ruby also acted alone when he killed Oswald before he could stand trial.

Although the Commission's conclusions were initially supported by a majority of the American public, polls conducted between 1966 and 2003 found that as many as 80 percent of Americans have suspected that there was a plot or cover-up. A 1998 CBS News poll showed that 76% of Americans believed the President had been killed as the result of a conspiracy. A 2013 AP poll showed, that although the percentage had fallen, more than 59% of those polled still believed that more than one person was involved in the President's murder. Source: Wikipedia

Marriages

• 1953-05-23
  John F. Kennedy's sister Eunice Kennedy (31) weds activist and attorney Sargent Shriver at Saint Patrick's Cathedral in New York City
• 1953-09-12
  Senator John F. Kennedy (36) weds Jacqueline Bouvier (24) in Newport, Rhode Island
• 1996-09-21
  Elder son of U.S. President John F. Kennedy and magazine publisher John F. Kennedy Jr. (35) weds Caroline Bisset (30) at the wood-frame Brack Chapel of the First African Baptist Church in Cumberland Island, Georgia

John F. Kennedy Timeline

• 1960-02-29
  JFK makes "missile gap" the presidential campaign issue
• 1960-07-13
  US Democratic convention nominates JFK as presidential candidate
• 1960-09-12
  John F. Kennedy avers he does not speak for the Roman Catholic Church, and neither does the Church speak for him.
• 1960-10-14
  Peace Corps 1st suggested by JFK
• 1960-10-21
  JFK & Nixon clashed in 4th & final presidential debate (NYC)
• 1960-11-08
  JFK (Sen-D-Mass) beats VP Richard Nixon (R) to become 35th US president
• 1961-01-25
  1st live, nationally televised presidential news conference (JFK)
• 1961-01-30
  JFK asks for an Alliance for Progress & Peace Corps
• 1961-03-13
  JFK sets up the Alliance for Progress
• 1961-04-24
  JFK accepts "sole responsibility" following Bay of Pigs
• 1961-05-25
  JFK sets goal of putting a man on Moon before the end of decade
• 1961-06-03
  JFK & Khrushchev meet in Vienna
• 1961-07-25
  In a speech John F. Kennedy emphasizes that any attack on Berlin is an attack on NATO.
• 1961-09-05
  JFK begins underground nuclear testing
• 1961-10-06
  JFK advises Americans to build fallout shelters
• 1961-11-18
  JFK sends 18,000 military advisors to South Vietnam
• 1961-12-11
  JFK provides US miltary helicopters & crews to South Vietnam
• 1962-03-02
  JFK announces US will resume above ground nuclear testing
• 1962-09-29
  JFK authorized use of federal troops to integrate U of Mississippi
• 1962-09-30
  JFK routes 3,000 federal troops to Mississippi
• 1962-10-16
  Cuban missile crisis begins as JFK becomes aware of missiles in Cuba
• 1962-10-18
  JFK meets Soviet minister of foreign affairs Andrei Gromyko
• 1962-10-22
  JFK addresses TV about Russian missile bases in Cuba
• 1962-10-22
  JFK imposes naval blockade on Cuba, beginning missile crisis
• 1962-10-26
  JFK warns Russia that the USA will not allow Soviet missiles to remain in Cuba
• 1963-02-19
  USSR informs JFK it is withdrawing several thousand troops from Cuba
• 1963-05-08
  JFK offers Israel assistance against aggression
• 1963-06-10
  US President JFK signs law for equal pay for equal work for men & women
• 1963-06-11
  US President JFK says segregation is morally wrong & that it is "time to act"
• 1963-09-20
  JFK proposes a joint US-Soviet voyage to the moon
• 1963-10-07
  JFK signs ratification for nuclear test ban treaty
• 1963-11-21
  JFK flies to Texas
• 1963-11-22
  American President John F. Kennedy assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas
• 1963-11-23
  JFK's body lay in repose in East Room of White House
• 1963-11-23
  LBJ proclaims Nov 25 a day of national mourning (for JFK)
• 1963-11-25
  JFK laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery
• 1967-03-14
  JFK's body moved from temporary grave to a permanent memorial

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