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John F. Kennedy: A Life From Beginning to End QUOTES

John F. Kennedy: A Life From Beginning to End QUOTES

1 " Kennedy vowed that before he was thirty-five years old, he intended to make a million dollars. The 1929 stock market crash didn’t damage the family’s wealth; Kennedy had become a multi-millionaire during the booming 1920s and prospered during the Depression; the canny Irishman credited his sense of timing with his prosperity, and by 1935 he was worth $180 million. "

― Hourly History , John F. Kennedy: A Life From Beginning to End

2 " Joe Jr. had been a student at Harvard Law School when he left to enlist in the United States Naval Reserve in June 1941, six months before the U.S. would enter the war. As a naval aviator, he completed twenty-five combat missions and had the option of returning home. Instead, he volunteered for a secret mission known as Operation Aphrodite. Joe Jr.’s plane exploded, killing the eldest Kennedy son. "

― Hourly History , John F. Kennedy: A Life From Beginning to End

3 " but Kennedy beat Lodge for the state’s Senate seat by 70,000 votes - the same number of people who attended the Kennedy women’s tea parties. "

― Hourly History , John F. Kennedy: A Life From Beginning to End

4 " appendicitis, jaundice, hepatitis, and malaria, as well as having problems hearing in his left ear and being allergic to dogs. In fact, Kennedy was so ill that he received the last rites three times during his life. "

― Hourly History , John F. Kennedy: A Life From Beginning to End

5 " Because of my father, I was used to infidelities, but Jack’s womanizing hurt me greatly.” —Jacqueline Kennedy "

― Hourly History , John F. Kennedy: A Life From Beginning to End

6 " John Kennedy had been sexually promiscuous as far back as his days when he was a high school student at Choate. "

― Hourly History , John F. Kennedy: A Life From Beginning to End

7 " Kennedy was not merely unfaithful to his wife; he was also indiscreet in his choices. One of his reputed mistresses, Judith Campbell Exner, had been introduced to Senator Kennedy in 1960 by Frank Sinatra. Not long after, she became the mistress of Mafia boss Sam Giancana, "

― Hourly History , John F. Kennedy: A Life From Beginning to End

8 " The most sweeping and forthright (proposals) ever presented by an American president.” —Martin Luther King, Jr. "

― Hourly History , John F. Kennedy: A Life From Beginning to End

9 " Robert Kennedy would also be felled by an assassin’s bullet in 1968 "

― Hourly History , John F. Kennedy: A Life From Beginning to End

10 " John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Jr, never had the chance to follow in his father’s footsteps, dying in 1999 when the plane he was piloting en route to his cousin’s wedding crashed into the Atlantic Ocean. "

― Hourly History , John F. Kennedy: A Life From Beginning to End

11 " The caisson that carried Kennedy’s coffin had also borne the bodies of President Lincoln, himself the victim of an assassin’s bullet, and Franklin Roosevelt. "

― Hourly History , John F. Kennedy: A Life From Beginning to End

12 " July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong made Kennedy’s prediction come true when he landed on the surface of the moon. Perhaps "

― Hourly History , John F. Kennedy: A Life From Beginning to End