Patrick Bouvier Kennedy by Michael S. Ryan

He also signed the first nuclear weapons treaty in October 1963.

spy planes discovered Soviet missile bases in Cuba the resulting period of tensions, termed the Cuban Missile Crisis, nearly resulted in the breakout of a global thermonuclear conflict. He authorized numerous operations to overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel Castro, including the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion in April 1961. He increased the number of American military advisors in South Vietnam. Kennedy's administration included high tensions with communist states in the Cold War. He was the first Catholic elected president. His campaign gained momentum after the first televised presidential debates in American history, and he was elected president, narrowly defeating Republican opponent Richard Nixon, who was the incumbent vice president. Kennedy ran in the 1960 presidential election. While in the Senate, Kennedy published his book, Profiles in Courage, which won a Pulitzer Prize. Senate and served as the junior senator for Massachusetts from 1953 to 1960. House of Representatives from 1947 to 1953. After a brief stint in journalism, Kennedy represented a working-class Boston district in the U.S. Kennedy's survival following the sinking of PT-109 and his rescue of his fellow sailors made him a war hero and earned the Navy and Marine Corps Medal, but left him with serious injuries. During World War II, he commanded a series of PT boats in the Pacific theater. Congress prior to his presidency.īorn into the prominent Kennedy family in Brookline, Massachusetts, Kennedy graduated from Harvard University in 1940 before joining the U.S. A Democrat, Kennedy represented Massachusetts in both houses of the U.S. Kennedy served at the height of the Cold War, and the majority of his foreign policy concerned relations with the Soviet Union and Cuba. He was the youngest person to assume the presidency by election and the youngest president at the end of his tenure. John Fitzgerald Kennedy (– November 22, 1963), often referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination in 1963.

Patrick Bouvier Kennedy by Michael S. Ryan