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| | John F. Kennedy - MSN Encarta |
 | | Rose Kennedy was the daughter of John F. Fitzgerald, who, as mayor of Boston, Massachusetts, was popularly known as “Honey Fitz.” Joseph Kennedy was the son of Patrick Kennedy, a successful businessman and a prominent Boston politician. | | | Although Joseph Kennedy never held elective office, he held appointive positions in the federal government during the New Deal of President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-1945). | | | Kennedy was assassinated before he completed his third year as president. |
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http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761576731/Kennedy_John_Fitzgerald.html
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| | John F. Kennedy: Biography |
| | Kennedy was elected to the Senate in 1952. | | | Kennedy accepted their decision and instructed Theodore Sorensen, a member of the committee, to write a speech in which Kennedy would explain to the world why it was necessary to impose a naval blockade of Cuba. | | | Kennedy's candidacy was controversial because no Roman Catholic had ever been elected president. |
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http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAkennedyJ.htm
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| | King Encyclopedia |
| | Kennedy's civil rights legislation continued to be heavily contested in Congress and remained stalled in the House of Representatives when Kennedy was assassinated on 22 November 1963. | | | As Kennedy's proposed legislation stalled in Congress, King and other civil rights leaders pressured the president for action and proceeded with plans for the March on Washington, scheduled for late August. | | | After serving in the Navy during World War II, he followed his father's entry into politics and served three terms in the U.S. House of Representatives and eight years in the Senate before securing the Democratic Party's nomination for president in 1960. |
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http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/about_king/encyclopedia/enc_JFK.htm
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| | John F. Kennedy |
| | John F. Kennedy, whose ancestors came from Ireland, was the first Roman Catholic to become President of the United States. | | | Kennedy missed being nominated for vice president by a few votes at the National Democratic Convention in Chicago in 1956. | | | As a boy, Kennedy attended private schools in Brookline and New York City and went on to Choate School, a college preparatory school in Connecticut. |
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http://www.wakecomp.com/josh/kennedy.html
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| | From Revolution to Reconstruction: Presidents: John F. Kennedy: Biography |
| | Kennedy studied at Harvard and after he had finished, he also had to serve in the war. | | | His father Joseph Kennedy was an ambitious politician, who became from son of a pubkeeper to a millionaire. | | | Johnson most of Kennedy's ideas were accepted by Congress. |
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http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/jk35/about/bio/jfkbio.htm
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| | John Fitzgerald Kennedy, President of the United States |
| | Rose Kennedy, the state and territorial governors, and former Presidents Truman and Eisenhower. | | | Kennedy on the White House lawn, led the march part of the way from the White House to the cathedral, lending further international flavour to the occasion and symbolizing the special relationship between Britain and the United States. | | | On 22 November, in anticipation of a decision that President Kennedy would be buried in Arlington National Cemetery, John C. Metzler, the cemetery superintendent, selected three possible gravesites. |
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http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/jfk.htm
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| | Kennedy, John F. [encyclopedia] |
| | Kennedy was the youngest man elected president of the United States, dying from an assassin.s bullet after serving less than one term in office. | | | Kennedy attended private elementary schools, including a year at Canterbury School in New Milford, Connecticut, and four years at Choate School in Wallingford, Connecticut. | | | Statesman and 35th U.S. president (1961-63), born on May 29, 1917, in Brookline, Massachusetts; the second of Joseph and Rose Kennedy's nine children. |
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http://www.artzia.com/History/Biography/Kennedy
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| | USS John F. Kennedy (CV 67) |
| | While on this cruise JFK served as the first United States ship to be visited by a Somali head of state, transited the Suez Canal, and logged it's 150,000th arrested landing. | | | After spending the winter of 1984 in drydock at Norfolk Naval Shipyard, JFK served as the centerpiece of a vast international armada for the Naval Review held in honor of the 100th Anniversary and Rededication of the Statue of Liberty during July of 1986. | | | The phrase represents the spirit of President Kennedy's inaugural address and specifically the famous line: "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country..." |
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http://navysite.de/cvn/cv67.htm
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| | American President |
| | Kennedy was the youngest person elected U.S. President and the first Roman Catholic to serve in that office. | | | For many observers, his presidency came to represent the ascendance of youthful idealism in the aftermath of World War II. | | | After a short stint as a journalist, Kennedy entered politics, serving in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1947 to 1953 and the U.S. Senate from 1953 to 1961. |
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http://www.americanpresident.org/history/johnfkennedy
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| | The Avalon Project : Inaugural Address of John F. Kennedy |
| | Chief Justice, President Eisenhower, Vice President Nixon, President Truman, reverend clergy, fellow citizens, we observe today not a victory of party, but a celebration of freedom--symbolizing an end, as well as a beginning--signifying renewal, as well as change. | | | The Avalon Project : Inaugural Address of John F. Kennedy | | | With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own. |
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http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/presiden/inaug/kennedy.htm
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| | American Presidents: Life Portraits |
| | • Hugh Sidey on JFK - JFK School of Government Watch | | | Eleanor Roosevelt for Kennedy 1960 TV Campaign Ad Watch | | | • American Presidents From JFK Birthplace Brookline, MA Watch |
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| | John F. Kennedy - Wikiquote |
| | John Fitzgerald Kennedy (29 May 1917 - 22 November 1963) 35th President of the United States; first husband of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. | | | Conversation with Harold Macmillan, in Bermuda (1961) as recounted by Richard Reeves in his book President Kennedy: Profile of Power (1994) | | | "Kennedy was the only member of his administration who didn't want to send in a massive ground force [to Vietnam]. |
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| | Character Above All: John F. Kennedy Essay |
| | The patient was identified as "the 37-year-old man." But anybody who knew his history, knew that John Kennedy was the thirty-seven-year-old man.... | | | He went after the presidency out of turn and essentially destroyed the old system of selecting presidents. | | | In the five years after that, and all the years after that, John Kennedy always denied that he had Addison's disease. |
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| | JFK University |
| | John F. Kennedy University · 100 Ellinwood Way. |
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| | JFK / The Kennedy Assassination Home Page |
| | This has long been the cry of the conspiracy theorists. | | | If Oswald shot Kennedy, what was his motive? | | | Paul Mitchinson debunks this in a posting on his blog, and reveals much about the ideological agenda behind the attack. |
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| | USATODAY.com - Online encyclopedia tightens rules following false article |
| | The biography also falsely stated that he had lived in the Soviet Union from 1971 to 1984. | | | For 132 days, Seigenthaler said, the biography of him falsely claimed that "for a brief time, he was thought to have been directly involved in the Kennedy assassinations of both John, and his brother, Bobby." | | | People who modify existing articles will still be able to do so without registering. |
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http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2005-12-05-wiki-rules_x.htm
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| | The History Place - JFK Photo History |
| | Welcome to our four part photo history of John Fitzgerald Kennedy featuring a spectacular selection of pictures hand selected by The History Place from the JFK Presidential Archives for your enjoyment and education. | | | Private home/school non-commercial, non-Internet re-usage only is allowed of any text, graphics, photos, audio clips, other electronic files or materials from The History Place. |
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