Ever heard of the assassination of John F. Kennedy? Chances are yes. President John F. Kennedy served his short period as president well. His life before the presidency had been interesting. Unfortunately, his assassination led to the end of this great era.
John F. Kennedy had grown up living a more complicated life. He was in a family with a total of 10 people. To begin, one thing that many people don’t know is John F. Kennedy used to be referred to as Jack. When he was born, he had come up with several diseases that had given the family the fear he might die. Luckily, he had been able to recover. The Kennedy family is known to have a lot of businessmen in their family. Since his father was strict, he needed to always obey. Whenever they would play games, he would be competitive because their father had high expectations for them to win. Since he was always under pressure to be good at everything, Jack worked extremely hard in school and always showed his best work. Jack was on the football team and had been the star until he sustained an injury from which he never truly recovered. Jack was a common nickname for John at the time. John had made friends easily and was well-liked by many people at his school. Jack had been excellent in his school work, although he was almost always compared to his older brother Joe. After graduating from Harvard, Kennedy decided to join the Navy as a result of the beginning of World War II. During this time that he served, a major tragedy occurred when Jack’s brother Joe died. When he came back after fighting many people recognized him for his courage and called him a hero. After this experience, he wrote a book and published it. John F. Kennedy had many health issues that he had to deal with that made living his life difficult. All the gastrointestinal and colon tests demonstrated that Jack had colitis and stomach-related issues, which made it troublesome for him to put on weight and undermined dangerous outcomes if the colon wound up ulcerated or drained. There had been many times when he thought he was going to die because his health was continuously going downhill.
After returning from the war, John had become involved in politics. He spent much of his time trying to create campaigns. He had been an excellent planner and was very organized when it came to politics. He ran for Congress and ended up becoming a part of the court. Since becoming a part of Congress, he decided to aim higher and run for president. He had traveled across states giving speeches for his political campaign. When Kennedy started running, he had been very successful at receiving lots of votes. His biggest competitor, Hubert H. Humphrey, had been a tough rival but had eventually dropped his campaign after suffering from financial problems. When he had won the designation of his gathering, Kennedy embraced the undertaking of persuading American voters that he would improve a president than his adversary. There were many televised debates between Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy that many Americans watched. Eventually, the election campaign ended with Kennedy winning office. Winning had given the United States lots of hope for our country. John F. Kennedy wanted people to be happy because he wanted to bring freedom to the people and hope that there can be peace on earth. He was very determined to make sure that he served his time as president well and fair. When he died, Lyndon B. Johnson took over as president.
John F. Kennedy did a lot of traveling through different places giving many speeches. One of these places had been in Texas. Kennedy would often make his speeches wearing no type of protection, even though he was aware of things that could happen. On one of those travel days, he had been cruising through Dallas, Texas. Everything was peaceful and radiant when all of a sudden a loud shot was heard from the crowd. At this moment everything and everyone went quiet. Not long after news he had been shot and killed had quickly spread. He had been rushed to the hospital, but by then it was too late to save him, and he had been pronounced dead that day. This news spread nationally very fast, and the United States of America had become very sympathetic to losing its president. Later on, a funeral that was broadcasted around the nation was watched, in honor of the president. Many condolences were sent to his family. The killer, Lee Harvey Oswald, was found about two hours after the shooting and was declared guilty. He was to go to the county jail, but he had been killed before successfully making it there. He was killed by a man named Jack Ruby who wanted to get revenge on the man who killed the president since he caused such a catastrophe to everyone. The president's body was conveyed to Love Field and put on Air Force One. Before the plane was removed, a dismal confronted Lyndon B. Johnson remained in the tight, swarmed compartment and guaranteed of office, controlled by US District Court Judge Sarah Hughes. The concise function occurred at 2:38 p.m. At the funeral, many important people, such as state representatives attended the funeral. Kennedy had been buried in Arlington Cemetery. This was the moment that the eternal flame had been started and still remains to this day. Many people think of these words that John F. Kennedy said at his inaugural: “All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days, nor in the first one thousand days, nor in the life of this administration. Nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin”. He will forever be remembered by many. That equivalent day, President Kennedy's banner-hung coffin was moved from the White House to the Capitol on a caisson drawn by six dim steeds, joined by one rider-less dark steed. At Mrs. Kennedy's ask for, the cortege and other stylized subtleties were demonstrated at the memorial service of Abraham Lincoln. Groups up all along Pennsylvania Avenue, and many sobbed transparently as the caisson passed. Amid the 21 hours that the president's body lay in state in the Capitol Rotunda, around 250,000 individuals recorded to offer their regards.
In conclusion, Kennedy had been through many hardships in his life. He had always brought hope to the nation in different ways. People will continue to remember all the good deeds he did. In the end, I believe that John F. Kennedy was a good president. He had gone through many hardships. These hardships included taking care of himself in order to keep his health good. Also making sure he campaigned well to ensure that people would like him and vote for him as president.