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Souces: *http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/jfk-inaug.htm *http://www.jfklibrary.org/jfkl/modules/diary/default.aspx *http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/John_F._Kennedy/ *http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/johnfkennedy/ *http://www.sparknotes.com/biography/jfk/timeline.html *http://www.presidentprofiles.com/Kennedy-Bush/John-F-Kennedy-Presidential-campaign.html

''Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.''

After the Presidency *JFK buried in Arlington National Cemetary *JFK inspired a generation of Americans in a way that few presidents have managed to do with the Peace Corps. *JFK fouled up the Bay of Pigs, but staved off nuclear war with the Soviet Union over Cuba, *the JFK's assassination has become a fertile breeding ground for conspiracy theories, implicating everyone from the Soviet government to angry segregationists, *Lyndon Johnson assumed the presidency *He pushed through landmark civil rights legislation which started the ''War on Proverty'' that JFK started.

Before the Presidency *He was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, on May 29, 1917. *Graduated from Harvard in 1940 * Entered in Navy in 1940 after graduating. He was injured when is PT boat was sunk by Japanese. He lead other sutrvivers in safety. *He earned the Purple Heart award for his actions on August 1, 1943 *Married Jacqueline Bouvier on Sept. 12, 1953 *He was a Democratic Congressman from the Boston area. He advanced in 1953 to the Senate. * In 1955, while recovering from a back operation, he wrote Profiles in Courage, which won the Pulitzer Prize. *In 1956, he almost gained the Democratic nomination for Vice President. *In 1960, He was the first-ballot nominee for President.

During the Presidency 1961 *Established the Peace Corps *Attempted U.S.-backed invasion of Cuba. *U.S.A. and Latin American nations join in the ''Alliance for Progress.'' 1962 *JFK forces the steel industry to eliminate a price increase. *He announces naval quarantine of Cuba after Soviet missiles were discovered. *Soviet Union agrees to remove its missiles. 1963 *JFK calls civil rights struggle a ''moral crisis'' for America. *U.S. and Soviet Union agree to a nuclear test-ban treaty. *U.S.-backed coup overthrows the government of South Vietnam, replaces it with a military dictatorship. *JFK is assassinated in Dallas, Texas