In Memoriam Rememberin John F. Kennedy John F. Kennedy Presidential Assassination 50th The President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records John F. Kennedy was killed on November 22, 1963. Almost 30 years later, Congress enacted the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992. The Act mandated that all assassination-related material be housed in a single collection in the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born on May 29, 1917, in Brookline, Massachusetts. Both the Fitzgeralds and the Kennedyswere wealthy and prominent Irish Catholic Boston families. Kennedys paternal grandfather, P.J. Kennedy, was a wealthy banker and liquor trader, and his maternal grandfather, John E. Fitzgerald, nicknamed Honey Fitz, was a skilled politician who served as a congressman and as the mayor of Boston. Kennedys mother, Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald, was a Boston debutante, and his father, Joseph Kennedy Sr., was a successful banker who made a fortune on the stock market after World War I. Joe Kennedy Sr. went on to a government career as Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission and as an Ambassador to Great Britain. John F. Kennedy, nicknamed Jack, was the second oldest of a group of nine extraordinary siblings. His brothers and sisters include Eunice Kennedy, the founder of the Special Olympics, Robert Kennedy, a U.S. Attorney General and Ted Kennedy, one of the most powerful senators in American history. The Kennedy children remained close-knit and supportive of each other throughout their entire lives. Joseph and Rose Kennedy largely spurned the world of Boston socialites into which they had been born to focus instead on their childrens education. Joe Kennedy in particular obsessed over every detail of his kids lives, a rarity for a father at that time. As a family friend noted, Most fathers in those days simply werent that interested in what their children did. But Joe Kennedy knew what his kids were up to all the time. Joe Sr. had great expectations for his children, and he sought to instill in them a fierce competitive fire and the belief that winning was everything. He entered his children in swimming and sailing competitions and chided them for finishing in anything but first place. John F. Kennedys sister Eunice later recalled, I was twenty-four before I knew I didnt have to winsomething every day. Jack Kennedy bought into his fathers philosophy that winning was everything. He hates to lose at anything, Eunice said. Thats the only thing Jack gets really emotional about -- when he loses.
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