JFK, the son of Joseph Patrick Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, on May 29, 1917. He was the second of nine children the couple shared.

Get our newsletter! John F. Kennedy, right, with his brother Robert, during the Cuban missile crisis in 1962. AP Photo Fifty Januaries ago, under a pallid sun and amid bitter winds, John F. Kennedy ...

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