John Fitzgerald Kennedy John F. Kennedy was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, on May 29, 1917. Kennedy was a descendant of Irish Catholics who had immigrated to America in the 19th century. His father was a combative business man who became a multimillionaire. Kennedy graduated from Choate School in Wallingford, Connecticut, briefly attended Princeton University, and then entered Harvard University in 1936. At Harvard he wrote an honors thesis on British foreign policies. Kennedy graduated from Harvard in 1940. During …showed first 75 words of 480 total…

…showed last 75 words of 480 total…F.Kennedy. On November 22, 1963 at 12:30 p.m. while driving through Dallas, Texas in an open limousine, Kennedy was shot in the head and neck by a sniper. He was rushed to Parkland Memorial Hospital, where efforts to revive him failed. It was later concluded that the killer, acting alone, was 24-year-old Lee Harvey Oswald. The state funeral of John F. Kennedy was watched by millions around the world. He was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.