John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born of May 29, 1917 and was the second son of nine children of Joseph Patrick Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy. The ancestors before him were of Wayford County in Ireland. John F. Kennedy's father served as first chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission and a US ambassador to Great Britain during Franklin D. Roosevelts administration. His mother was the daughter of John F. Fitzgerald who was also a political figure. John …
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…in an open limousine through Dallas, Texas, Kennedy was shot in the page 7 head and the neck at 12:30 PM on November, 22. Efforts to revive him failed as they brought him to Parkland Memorial Hospital. The assassin was captured hours after the assassination in theater nearby; his name was Lee Harvey Oswald, a former US Marine. He was then later killed by a nightclub owner, Jack Ruby. John F. Kennedy was buried in Arlington National Cemetery