John F. Kennedy was born in Brookline, Massachusetts. He was born on May 29, 1917. He was a graduate in Harvard in 1940 and then later joined the Navy. In 1943 his ship got sunk by a Japanese destroyer. He than led the survivors to safety despite his injuries. After war he became a Congressman for Boston. He later married Jacqueline Bouvier on September 12, 1953. A couple of years later Kennedy and his wife had 4 children but unfortunately only 2 survived. In 1956 Kennedy nearly won a Democratic nomination for Vice President. Four years later he was then a first ballot nominee. Kennedy then became the first Roman Catholic president. In 1962 the Cuban Missile Crisis started. At the time the Cold War was also going on. Russia went to Cuba and installed nuclear bombs to try and hit the USA because if they tried to hit us from Russia then it obviously wouldn’t make it. The conflict was originally between the Soviet Union and America but when the Soviet Union moved to Cuba to try and fire at America it became the Cuban Missile Crisis When John F. Kennedy sent spy’s to the Soviet Union and when the spy’s figured out that the Soviet Union was sending nuclear bombs to Cuba to fire at America they sent notice to John F. Kennedy and then John F. Kennedy sent spy’s to Cuba to see what they were planning on doing to attack America. They figured out that the Soviet Union was planning on shooting missiles at America. In the end it they agreed to disarm their weapons because America said if they didn’t than they would declare war and the Soviet Union didn’t want that. The whole Cuban Missile Crisis lasted no longer than 13 nerve wrecking days. John F. Kennedy later died on November 23, 1963.