4. he attended school at both Canterbury school, a private school in New Milford, Connecticut, and Choate preparatory school in Wallingford, also in Connecticut.
5. In 1935, He entered Princeton University, but due to illness he was forced to leave school. He resumed school the following year, this time, at Harvard University.
6. He was a good athlete and participated in a number of sports including swimming and football from which he acquired a back injury that stopped him from playing.
7. He used his undergraduate thesis as the basis for a book, Why England Slept (1940), a study of Britain’s response to German rearmament prior to WW2.
8. He served in the Navy during WW2 and even received a US Navy and Marine Corps Medal, awarded for heroism not involving conflict with the enemy.
9. He became a congressman at the age of 29, and served three terms in the House of Representatives.
10. In 1952-1961, he represented Massachusetts in the US house of Senate.
11. In 1953, He married Jacqueline Lee Bouvier, they had three children, Caroline, who was born in 1957, John, born 17 days after the presidential election in 1960, and Patrick who died 48 hours after his birth in 1963..

Presidential Facts

1. At 44, he became the youngest man elected president.
2. He was the first Roman Catholic president.
3. He was the fourth president to be assasinated.
4. He created the Peace Corps, a volunteer humanitarian organization, in 1961.
5. Ordered the Bay of Pigs invasion on Cuba, a failed attempt to overthrow, Cuban leader Fidel Castro in 1961.
6. Instituted a naval blockage of Cuba in 1962, resulting in the removal of Soviet nuclear missiles from Cuba.
7. Authorized federal troops to enforce court ordered integration in schools in Alabama and Mississippi in 1962 and 1963.