Life and death of JFK

Life and death of JFK

BIOGRAPHICAL DATA:
1917 may 29th: John Fitzgerald Kennedy is born in Brookline,
Massachusetts,
1926 move of his family to New York
1931 entry into the boarding school Choate
1935 matriculation at the University of Princeton; hard
illness
1936 matriculation at the University of Harvard
1940 finishing studies and publication of his dissertation
„Why England Slept"
1941 working at the intelligence service of the navy in Washington
1942 transfer (Versetzung) to Charleston, South Carolina
1943 march: JFK gets the command of the speedboat PT109
in the Pacific ocean
august: sinking of PT109 because of an attack by japanese destroyers (night of august 1st )
1944 august: death of his older brother Joseph because of an airplanecrash
1945 special correspondent of the HearstPress at the Potsdam conference
1946 November. election into the House of Representatives
1948 may : death of his sister Kathleen
1952 november. victory JFKs on Henry Cabot Lodge at the
elections to the senate
1953 September 12th : marriage with Jacqueline Bouvier
1956 august : publication of „Profits of Courage"; defeat in candidacy of the vice-president
1957 November 27th: birth of his daughter Caroline
1958 re-elected for senator
1960 January : candidacy for presidential-elections
July : nomination for presidential candidate of the Democrats
November 8th: election for 35. president of the USA
November 25th: birth of the son John
1961 January 20th: Administration to office (Amtseinfuhrung)
April: invasion into the Schweinebucht on Cuba
may: beginning of the freedom movement by black people
July: summit meeting (Gipfeltreffen) with Nikita Chruschtschow in Wien
summer/ autumn : Berlin-crisis and erection of the Berlin-wall
1962 April: confrontation with steel companies
October: armed forces after heavy race riots in Oxford, Mississippi
October 16th - 28th : Cuba-rocketcrisis
1963 may: massive race riots in Birmingham, Alabama
June:...