May 6

John F. Kennedy

  • 35th president 1961 -1963
  • born in Brooklyn mass
  • wrote a book called why England slept
  • Graduated from Harvard in 1940
  • served in WW2
  • was in the navy
  • Democratic congress man
  • advanced to senate
  • The second youngest president

Accompishments

  • New Frontier - domestic program promising federal funding fro education, medical care for the elderly, economics aid to rural regions, and government intervention to halt the recession for time
  • Abolished the federal death penalty
  • Prohibited racial discrimination 

Assassination

  • Shot by Lee Harvey Oswald
  • Shot on elm street 

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