Exemplification Essay: The Life Of John F. Kennedy
The Life of John F. Kennedy
On May 29, 1917 on a cool spring day, a new child was brought into the world by Rose and Joseph Kennedy in a three story farmhouse at 83 Beals Street in Brookline, Massachusetts. This child’s name was John Fitzgerald Kennedy. John F. Kennedy was born into, and raised by, a family run by politics. John´s father, Joseph Patrick Kennedy Sr., was a businessman that worked as the assistant general manager of the Fore River Shipyard where he met Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was then the Secretary of the U.S. Navy. Roosevelt then appointed Joseph Kennedy as chair of the SEC and as the U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. John F. Kennedy's grandfather, John Francis Fitzgerald, also had a lifetime of politics serving as Mayor of Boston, Massachusetts. John Kennedy, who was soon nicknamed Jack by his friends and family, lived in a household with one older brother and seven younger siblings. …show more content…
learned that the Soviet Union had been placing nuclear missiles in Cuba, the United States issued a complete naval blockade of Cuba in an attempt to halt any further missiles from being stationed in Cuba that ended in Khrushchev deciding to back down and turn his boats carrying the missiles back to the Soviet Union. This caused tempers to flare in both nations as the relationship between the U.S. and the Soviet Union was stretched to an all time thin. In this 14 day period, numerous letters were sent between Khrushchev and Kennedy each demanding that the other step down, until Kennedy sent an offer to dismantle all U.S. nuclear weapons in their bases in Turkey, to remove the naval blockade of Cuba, and to not invade Cuba if the Soviet missiles were removed. Khrushchev accepted this offer and the missiles in both Cuba and Turkey were removed. Through Kennedy’s negotiations and his sense of the greater good, the United States and the Soviet Union were able to maintain peace in this time of potential nuclear
On May 29, 1917 on a cool spring day, a new child was brought into the world by Rose and Joseph Kennedy in a three story farmhouse at 83 Beals Street in Brookline, Massachusetts. This child’s name was John Fitzgerald Kennedy. John F. Kennedy was born into, and raised by, a family run by politics. John´s father, Joseph Patrick Kennedy Sr., was a businessman that worked as the assistant general manager of the Fore River Shipyard where he met Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was then the Secretary of the U.S. Navy. Roosevelt then appointed Joseph Kennedy as chair of the SEC and as the U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. John F. Kennedy's grandfather, John Francis Fitzgerald, also had a lifetime of politics serving as Mayor of Boston, Massachusetts. John Kennedy, who was soon nicknamed Jack by his friends and family, lived in a household with one older brother and seven younger siblings. …show more content…
learned that the Soviet Union had been placing nuclear missiles in Cuba, the United States issued a complete naval blockade of Cuba in an attempt to halt any further missiles from being stationed in Cuba that ended in Khrushchev deciding to back down and turn his boats carrying the missiles back to the Soviet Union. This caused tempers to flare in both nations as the relationship between the U.S. and the Soviet Union was stretched to an all time thin. In this 14 day period, numerous letters were sent between Khrushchev and Kennedy each demanding that the other step down, until Kennedy sent an offer to dismantle all U.S. nuclear weapons in their bases in Turkey, to remove the naval blockade of Cuba, and to not invade Cuba if the Soviet missiles were removed. Khrushchev accepted this offer and the missiles in both Cuba and Turkey were removed. Through Kennedy’s negotiations and his sense of the greater good, the United States and the Soviet Union were able to maintain peace in this time of potential nuclear