About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 109. Chapters: Selena, Lee Harvey Oswald, Charles Whitman, John F. Kennedy, Fort Hood shooting, Dean Corll, W. D. Jones, John Wesley Hardin, Chris Adams, David Koresh, William B. Travis, Ben Thompson, J. D. Tippit, James Fannin, Price Daniel, Jr., Rodney Joseph Johnson, Death of Jennifer Ann Crecente, List of Charles Whitman's victims, Carter Albrecht, Luby's massacre, Big Hawk, Doris Angleton, John Selman, Danny Rodriguez, Johnson Space Center shooting, William Cowper Brann, Fat Pat, Buster Pickens, A. P. Borger, Patrick Dennehy, John A. Wharton, John Younger, William Sidney "Cap" Light, William Carver, Ben Kilpatrick, Benjamin Long, John Holmes Jenkins, William H. Wharton, John H. Wood, Jr., John Grimsley, Daniel Rocha, Don Bass, Richardson A. Scurry, Fort Bliss shooting. Excerpt: John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy .) (May 29, 1917 - November 22, 1963), often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. After military service as commander of the Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109 and Motor Torpedo Boat PT-59 during World War II in the South Pacific, Kennedy represented Massachusetts's 11th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1947 to 1953 as a Democrat. Thereafter, he served in the U.S. Senate from 1953 until 1960. Kennedy defeated then Vice President and Republican candidate Richard Nixon in the 1960 U.S. presidential election. He was the youngest elected to the office, at the age of 43, the second-youngest President (after Theodore Roosevelt), and the first president to have been born in the 20th century. Kennedy is the only Catholic president, and is the only president to have won a Pulitzer Prize. Events during his presidency included the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the building of the Berlin Wall, the Spac...
