Van wie was John F. Kennedy?

John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), also known as JFK, was the 35th president of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. He was the youngest person elected president, at 43 years, and the first Catholic president. Kennedy served at the height of the Cold War, and the majority of his foreign policy concerned relations with the Soviet Union and Cuba. A member of the Democratic Party, Kennedy represented Massachusetts in both houses of the United States Congress before his presidency.

Born into the prominent Kennedy family in Brookline, Massachusetts, Kennedy graduated from Harvard University in 1940, joining the U.S. Naval Reserve the following year. During World War II, he commanded PT boats in the Pacific theater. Kennedy's survival following the sinking of PT-109 and his rescue of his fellow sailors made him a war hero and earned the Navy and Marine Corps Medal, but left him with serious injuries. After a brief stint in journalism, Kennedy represented a working-class Boston district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1947 to 1953. He was subsequently elected to the U.S. Senate, serving as the junior senator from Massachusetts from 1953 to 1960. While in the Senate, Kennedy published his book Profiles in Courage, which won a Pulitzer Prize. Kennedy ran in the 1960 presidential election. His campaign gained momentum after the first televised presidential debates in American history, and he was elected president, narrowly defeating Republican opponent Richard Nixon, the incumbent vice president.

Kennedy's presidency saw high tensions with communist states in the Cold War. He increased the number of American military advisers in South Vietnam, and the Strategic Hamlet Program began during his presidency. In 1961, he authorized attempts to overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel Castro in the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion and Operation Mongoose. In October 1962, U.S. spy planes discovered Soviet missile bases had been deployed in Cuba. The resulting period of tensions, termed the Cuban Missile Crisis, nearly resulted in nuclear war. In August 1961, after East German troops erected the Berlin Wall, Kennedy sent an army convoy to reassure West Berliners of U.S. support, and delivered one of his most famous speeches in West Berlin in June 1963. In 1963, Kennedy signed the first nuclear weapons treaty. He presided over the establishment of the Peace Corps, Alliance for Progress with Latin America, and the continuation of the Apollo program with the goal of landing a man on the Moon before 1970. He supported the civil rights movement but was only somewhat successful in passing his New Frontier domestic policies.

On November 22, 1963, Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. His vice president, Lyndon B. Johnson, assumed the presidency. Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for the assassination, but Jack Ruby shot and killed him two days later. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Warren Commission both concluded Oswald had acted alone, but conspiracy theories about the assassination persist. After Kennedy's death, Congress enacted many of his proposals, including the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Revenue Act of 1964. He ranks highly in polls of U.S. presidents with historians and the general public. His personal life has been the focus of considerable sustained interest following public revelations in the 1970s of his chronic health ailments and extramarital affairs. Kennedy is the most recent U.S. president to have died in office.

Judith Campbell, née Judith Eileen Katherine Immoor, également connue comme Judith Exner ou Judith Campbell Exner (New York, 11 janvier 1934 - Duarte (Californie), 25 septembre 1999), est une personnalité américaine notamment connue pour avoir été la maîtresse du 35^e président des États-Unis John F. Kennedy et du parrain de la mafia de Chicago Sam Giancana.

Karin Adele Gunilla von Post Miller (10 July 1932 – 14 October 2011) was a Swedish aristocrat noted for a book outlining an intimate relationship with then-Senator John F. Kennedy in the 1950s, titled Love, Jack, published in 1997. In 2010, she auctioned letters written by Kennedy to her.

Kennedy met Gunilla von Post one month before his marriage to Jacqueline Lee Bouvier during the summer of 1953 while on holiday on the French Riviera.

In 2015, a leather jacket that had once belonged to Kennedy and which he had left with von Post was unearthed by the senior chaplain of The King's School, Canterbury. He then brought it to a November 2015 filming of an episode of the Antiques Roadshow at Walmer Castle in Kent, where it was valued in excess of £100,000 (circa $152,000 US dollars) by one of the show's expert appraisers, Jon Baddeley.

Mary Eno Pinchot Meyer, née le 14 octobre 1920 à New York (État de New York, États-Unis) et morte assassinée le 12 octobre 1964 à Washington D.C., est une artiste américaine. Son travail est considéré comme faisant partie de l'École de couleur de Washington. Il a été sélectionné pour être présenté à l'exposition d'art de l'Union panaméricaine au Musée d'art moderne de Buenos Aires. Mary a été mariée à l'agent de l'Agence Centrale de Renseignement (CIA) Cord Meyer de 1945 à 1958. Après son divorce avec lui, elle entretient une relation amoureuse avec John F. Kennedy, 35^e président des États-Unis.

Meyer a été tuée le 12 octobre 1964 à Washington D.C., dans le quartier de Georgetown, trois semaines après la publication du rapport de la Commission Warren, dont Meyer aurait contesté les conclusions. Meyer a longtemps critiqué la CIA. Le fait que la CIA avait mis sur écoute le téléphone de Meyer, et que le chef du contre-espionnage de la CIA, James Jesus Angleton, s'efforce de récupérer le journal intime de Meyer immédiatement après sa mort, amène à se questionner sur l'implication de la CIA dans le meurtre de Mary. En outre, les dossiers du personnel de l'armée, destinés au témoin à charge, le lieutenant William L. Mitchell, sortis en 2015 et 2016, en vertu de la Loi sur la liberté et l'information, confirment ses liens avec la communauté du renseignement. L'implication de la CIA a également été suggérée par l'appel téléphonique que Wistar Janney, haut responsable de l'Agence a passé à Ben Bradlee, quelques heures avant que la police ait identifié le corps de Meyer. L'homme accusé du meurtre, Ray Crump, Jr, a été acquitté au procès en juillet 1965. Le meurtre reste officiellement non résolu.

Katherine "Kay" Esther Stammers (3 April 1914 – 23 December 2005) was a tennis player from the United Kingdom.

Agnes Laverne Carmen, also known as Jeanne Carmen (August 4, 1930 – December 20, 2007), was an American model, actress, trick-shot golfer, and B-movie actress known for her appearances in low-budget films during the 1950s and 1960s. She also gained fame as a touring trick-shot golfer. Known for her platinum-blonde hair and hourglass figure, she was often dubbed the "Queen of the B-Movies". She was known for her friendships with Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, and Marilyn Monroe.

Marilyn Monroe, pseudoniem van Norma Jeane Mortenson (Los Angeles (Californië), 1 juni 1926 – aldaar, 4 augustus 1962), was een Amerikaans fotomodel, actrice en zangeres. Ze werd als sekssymbool een icoon in de jaren vijftig.

Marion Fay "Mimi" Alford (née Beardsley; born May 7, 1943) is an American woman who had an affair with President John F. Kennedy while she served as an intern in the White House press office between 1962 and 1963.

Despite the affair's consuming influence over her life at the time, Alford managed to keep the illicit trysts a secret for 40 years, until clues were leaked in 2003. Alford published her own book about the affair, Once Upon a Secret, in 2011.

Marie Magdalene (Marlene) Dietrich (Schöneberg, 27 december 1901 – Parijs, 6 mei 1992) was een Duits-Amerikaans actrice en zangeres.

Angie Dickinson, née Angeline Brown, est une actrice américaine, née le 30 septembre 1931 à Kulm (Dakota du Nord).

Inga Marie Arvad Petersen (6 October 1913 – 12 December 1973) was a Danish-American journalist who was a guest of Adolf Hitler at the 1936 Summer Olympics and also had a romantic relationship with John F. Kennedy in 1941 and 1942. The juxtaposition of these facts led to suspicions during World War II that she was a Nazi spy. Secret U.S. investigations uncovered no such evidence, and her past did not harm her professional life or social standing in the United States. She was a motion picture writer for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1945 and a Hollywood gossip columnist, and from the late 1940s until her death, she was the wife of wealthy cowboy actor and military officer Tim McCoy.

Pamela Harrison Turnure Timmins (November 20, 1937 – April 25, 2023) was the first Press Secretary hired to serve a First Lady of the United States. She was the Press Secretary to Jacqueline Kennedy. Turnure reportedly had an extramarital affair with 35th President of the United States John F. Kennedy.

Gene Tierney (Brooklyn (New York), 19 november 1920 – Houston (Texas), 6 november 1991) was een Amerikaans actrice.