P ART PLANNING
I decided to do an essay on the early life of JFK because I had seen
a
programme about him on television and thought it would make a good essay.
My aims were -
1 To find out about his childhood
2 To find out his education
3 To find about his life before World War 2
4 To find about what he did during world war
2 and
5 To find out about his family.
After I picked my essay I went and got information from the
Internet and from some books A list
of all sources is to be found at
the back of the essay.I drew up a plan and creat up my essay on the computer
PART 2 REVIW OF SOURCES
For my essay I got information from a websites.The
websites I used were
1 www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents
2 www.spartacus.school/net.co
3 www.biography.com.
The first website had information on all the American presidents.
It did his life from his birth all to his death.It
was a good like to start which because it covered his whole life but it did not
do his early life in detail.
The second website covered his whole life but it had lots of photograhs.His early life was not done in detail.
The last white was very useful because it had lot of information on
his early life.It also had a timeline
which was very useful.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE EARY LIFE
OF JOHN KENNDY FROM 1917-1945
Kennedy was born at 83 Beals Street in Brookline, Massachusetts
on Tuesday, May 29, 1917, at 3.00 p.m.He was the second son of Joseph P.Kennedy
and Rose Fitzgerald. Rose, in turn, was the eldest child of John Honey Fitzkennedy, who was to be the first U.S. president born in the
twentieth century. .
In September 1927 Kennedy
moved with his family to a rented 20 room mansion in Riverdale, Bronx, New York
City Two years later his moved five miles northeast to a 21 room mansion in
Bronxville. Kennedy spent summers with his family at home in Hyannis
Port, Massachusetts[ bought in 1929 and Christmas and Easter holidays with his family at their winter home
in Palm Beach.
In his primary school years ,he attended Riverdale
country school,a private school for boys in
Riverdale. From 5th through 7th grade the 13 years old
Kennedy was sent fifty miles away to Canterbury school.In
January 1934 he became ill, lost a lot of weight, and went to hospital at
Yale-new heaven hospital and spent most of June 1934 at the Mayo clinic in
Rochester. He graduated in June 1935. Kennedy was voted in his year book most likely to
become president. In September 1935 ,he sailed on the
SS Normandy on his first trip abroad with his parents to London
with the plan of studying for a year with professor Harold Laski at the London school of
economics. He sailed back to America
only three weeks after he arrived. In October 1935, Kennedy enrolled late and
spent six weeks at Princeton University, but was hospitalised
for two months observation for possible leukemia at Peter Bent Brigham hospital
in Boston in
January and February 1936. He Recovered at the Kennedy
winter home in palm. He spent April, May and June working as a ranch hand on a
40,000 acre [160km2] cattle calle ranch outside Benson, Arizona
Then July and August racing sailboats at the Kennedy summer home in Hyannisport. In September 1936 he enrolled as a freshman at
Harvard college, living in Winthrop house during his time there
following two years behind his older brother Joe. In early July 1937, Kennedy
took his car, sailed on the SS Washington to France
and spent ten weeks driving with his friend through France,
Italy, Germany, Holland
and England.
In late June 1938, Kennedy sailed with his father and brother Joe on the SS
Normandy to spend July working with his family at a villa near Cannes from February
through September 1939. Kennedy toured Europe, the Soviet Union, the Balkans
and the Middle East to gather background
information for his Harvard senior honors thesis. He spend ten days of august In Czechoslovakia and
Germany before returning to London on September 1, 1939, the day Germany
invaded Poland. On September
3, 1939, Kennedy and family went to the House of Commons to hear
speeches in support of the United kingdom’s
declaration of war on Germany.
Kennedy was sent by his father’s representative to help with arrangement for
American survivors of the SSAsthenia , before flying back to the U.S. from Foynes, Ireland to Port Washington New York on his first transatlantic flight
at the end of September
In 1940, Kennedy completed his thesis, ‘Appeasement in Munich’, about British
part in the Munich Agreement. He wanted to heeh his
project private, but his father encouraged him to publish it as a book. He
graduated cum laude from Harvard with a degree in international affairs in June
1940, and his thesis was published in June 1940 as a book entitled While
England Slept, and
became a bestseller.
Fron September to
December 1940, Kennedy was enrolled and at the Stanford Graduate
School of business. In
early 1941, he helped his father complete the writing of a memoir of his time
as an American ambassador. In May June 1941, Kennedy traveled throughout South
American.
In the spring of 1941, Kennedy volunteered for the U.S. Army, but
was not accepted mainly because of his back. Nevertheless, in September of
that year, the U.S. Navy accepted him, due to the influenceof
his father. As an ensign, Kennedy worked in the office which supplied information for the secretary of the navy.It was during this job that the attack on Pearl Harbor happened. He went to the Naval Reserve
officers Training school and motor Torpedo
Boat Squadron
Training Center
before being sent for duty in panama and eventually the Pacific. He had manycommands in the pacific and earned the rank of lieutenant,
commanding a patrol torpedo
On August 2, 1943,
Kennedy’s boat, the PT-109, was taking part in a nighttime patrol near New
Georgia in the Solomon Islands
. It was rammed by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri.
Kennedy was thrown across the deck, injuring his already-trouble back He swam,
towing a wounded man, to an island and later to a second island where his crew was rescued. For these bravery, Kennedy received the Navy Marine corps Medal.
Kennedy’s other medal in World War 2 included the Purple Heart, and the World War 2 Victory Medal. He was
honorably discharged in early 1945, just a few months before Japan surrendered
During his presidency kennedy Privately
admitted to friends that he did not feel that he deserved the medals he had
received, because the PT-109 incident had been the result of a tailed military
operation that took the lives of two of
his crew.After the war he began his career in
Politics and the began his path to the white house.