1917 - 1963
Kennedy was born May 29, 1917 in Brooklyn. He was the second child in one of the most famous and influential families of the U.S.. His father, Joseph Patrick
Kennedy, was a multimillionaire owner of the diverse businesses from banks and shipyards to movie studios as well as a prominent functionary of the Democratic Party USA. The future president's mother, Rosa, was the daughter of
John F.
Fitzgerald, in his time mayor of Boston.
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