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January 26, 2011 | Theatre,
Keeping Up With The Kennedys
September 12, 1953: Jack marries Jacqueline Lee Bouvier in Newport, R.I. She is the daughter of John Vernon Bouvier III and Janet Lee Bouvier.
October 21, 1954: Jack undergoes surgery for a back injury he received during the PT-109 incident.
February 1955: Jack undergoes a second back operation during which he almost dies. During his recovery, he writes Profiles in Courage, which wins a Pulitzer Prize for biography in 1957.
August 17, 1956: Jack loses his bid for the Democratic nomination for vice president.
August 23, 1956: Jack & Jackie’s daughter, Arabella, is stillborn in Newport, R.I.
November 27, 1957: Caroline Bouvier Kennedy (daughter of Jack & Jackie) is born at Cornell Medical Center, New York.
November 29, 1958: Ted Kennedy marries Joan Bennett, his first wife, at St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church in Bronxville, NY. They will have three children, Kara Kennedy Allen, Edward Moore Kennedy, Jr., and Patrick Joseph Kennedy.
January 2, 1960: Jack announces his candidacy for president of the United States and on July 13 receives the Democratic nomination.
November 8,1960: Jack defeats Richard M. Nixon to become the 35th president of the United States. He wins by a margin of 2/10 of 1 percent with 49.75 percent of the votes. Nixon receives 49.55 percent.
November 25, 1960: John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. is born at Georgetown University Hospital to Jack and Jackie.
January 20, 1961: At age 43, Jack takes the oath of office to become the 35th president of the United States. He is the youngest elected president and the first president to be Roman Catholic. In his inaugural speech, Kennedy speaks these words: “And so, my fellow Americans…ask not what your country can do for you…ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world…ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.”
December 19, 1961: Joe Sr. suffers a stroke. He is paralyzed and will remain unable to speak for the last eight years of his life.
May 19, 1962: At President Kennedy’s 45th birthday party at Madison Square Garden, Marilyn Monroe sings a breathless “Happy Birthday” to the president.
June 1962: Eunice Kennedy Shriver begins a summer day camp for children and adults with intellectual disabilities at her home in Maryland to explore their capabilities in a variety of sports and physical activities. From that camp came the concept of Special Olympics.
November 6, 1962: Ted Kennedy wins the U.S. Senate seat for Massachusetts in a special election to fill the seat his brother Jack had vacated when he became president in 1960. Ted retains the position for the rest of his life.
August 1963: Patrick, Jack & Jackie’s son, dies as a newborn.
November 22, 1963: Jack Kennedy is shot at 12:30pm while riding in an open-top limousine in a motorcade through downtown Dallas. He is pronounced dead at 1pm at Parkland Memorial Hospital. 80 minutes after the assassination, Lee Harvey Oswald is arrested. Later Oswald is charged with murder.
November 24, 1963: Jack Ruby fatally shoots Lee Harvey Oswald.
November 25, 1963: John Fitzgerald Kennedy (Jack) is buried in Arlington National Cemetery with his son Patrick and his daughter Arabella.
June 19, 1964: Ted Kennedy is injured in a deadly twin-engine plane crash and confined to a bed for months. He runs his reelection campaign from his bedside with the help of his wife, Joan. Ted is reelected in November, and Robert Kennedy wins a New York Senate seat.
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