People from Boston, Massachusetts - John F. Kennedy, Aafia Siddiqui, Alexander Graham Bell, Louis Brandeis, Malcolm X, Anne Hutchinson, Samuel Adams, J (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 186. Chapters: John F. Kennedy, Aafia Siddiqui, Alexander Graham Bell, Louis Brandeis, Malcolm X, Anne Hutchinson, Samuel Adams, John Quincy Adams, Whitey Bulger, Kennedy family, Charles Sumner, Daniel J. Tobin, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Francis Amasa Walker, Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., Jeremy Roenick, Cornelius Shea, Henry Knox, John Quinlan (wrestler), Joseph B. Soloveitchik, James Bryant Conant. Excerpt: John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy .) (May 29, 1917 - November 22, 1963), often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his death in 1963. After military service as commander of the Motor Torpedo Boats PT-109 and PT-59 during World War II in the South Pacific, Kennedy represented Massachusetts' 11th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1947 to 1953 as a Democrat. Thereafter, he served in the U.S. Senate from 1953 until 1960. Kennedy defeated Vice President and Republican candidate Richard Nixon in the 1960 U.S. presidential election. He was the youngest elected to the office, at the age of 43, the second-youngest President (after Theodore Roosevelt), and the first person born in the 20th century to serve as president. Kennedy is the only Catholic president, and is the only president to have won a Pulitzer Prize. Events during his presidency included the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the building of the Berlin Wall, the Space Race, the African-American Civil Rights Movement, and early stages of the Vietnam War. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas. Lee Harvey Oswald was charged with the crime, but he was shot and killed by Jack Ruby two days later, before a trial could take place. The FBI and the Warren Commission officially concluded that Oswald was the lone assassin. However, the United States House...