The Life of John F Kennedy

John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born on May 29, 1917, in Brookline, Massachusetts, the second oldest in a family of nine children. Joe Junior, was born first, then Jack, Rosemary, Kathleen, Eunice, Patricia, Robert, Jean, and Edward. He was also the great-grandson of Irish immigrants who came to America in the 19th century. His great grandparents had come to the United States from Ireland in the mid-1800s after a famine caused severe poverty in that country. Although …

…but the man who says it that counts, the character which breathes through the sentences.” The republication here of John F. Kennedy’s words cannot possibly convey in full the energy and vitality of the man, his courage as a leader, of his warmth as a friend. But they can convey his principles and his hopes; and those are worth remembering now and for generations to come. Through his words, John F. Kennedy lives on.