John+F.+Kennedy

media type="youtube" key="4phB-rRjYQw" width="425" height="350" ** John F. Kennedy ** John F. Kennedy did a great deal for the United States of America. He was a World War II hero, he was the 35th president of the United States, he was a congressman, and he was a writer. Before John F. Kennedy was the president he was a soldier in World War II. One day he was commanding a PT boat and then suddenly a huge Japanese destroyer crashed into it. The boat then split in two and three men were injured (John was one of them). John F. Kennedy had hurt his back badly. The boat was sinking so he needed to get off fast and every one was still on the boat! Two of the men on the boat were injured very badly and they couldn’t move. So John F. Kennedy took one of the men and on his injured back and then he told everybody to swim to the nearby island and there was one more man behind him! So he towed him and made it safely ashore. For that he was awarded the Medal of Honor! When he was back from the war he ran for Congress when he was 29 and won. He was then in the government. Soon he became a Senator and wrote a book called //Profiles of Courage//. Later he ran for president against Richard Nixon (who was the 37th president) and he was the winner again, so he became the 35th president of the USA!! He was only 44 the youngest president ever! At his inauguration on January 20th, 1961, he said something that is still remembered today, he said “and so my fellow Americans ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.” On October 14th, 1962, U-2 spy planes took pictures of Soviet Union intermediate range ballistic missiles under construction in Cuba. When Kennedy saw these pictures he told America and America got scared. Immediately Kennedy sent offensive weapons to Cuba. America didn’t want to have war so they backed down and Kennedy commanded for them to take out the missiles and the Soviet Union did so. John F. Kennedy thought that there should be a man on the moon before the decade was out. The race started in May, 1961 and continued tilled 1963. NASA’s Mercury Program launched six astronauts into space.
 * By ** **__Matt__**

On May 22nd, 1963 John F. Kennedy was in Dallas, Texas, in a convertible. At a parade were thousands of people, where John F. Kennedy was shot. Soon after John F. Kennedy died. He was only 46 when died. Millions of Americans watched the funeral so did people around the world. America was very sad about JFK being shot. Soon they found out who shot John F. Kennedy, his name was Lee Harvey Oswald. Soon after that America found out that JFK was shot in the head and the neck, the other bullet missed. JFK was a very good president that we should all remember. He stood against the Soviet Union, he led us into outer space, and was a war hero.   Works Cited Harper, Judith E. __John F. Kennedy our thirty-fifth president__. Chanhassen, Minn: Child's World, 2002. Heiligman, Deborah. __High hopes a photobiography of John F. Kennedy__. Washington, D.C: National Geographic, 2003. Potts, Steve. __John F. Kennedy a photo-illustrated biography__. Mankato, Minn: Bridgestone Books, 1996.