John F. Kennedy

The '64 Kennedy half dollar contains 90% silver with 10% copper and weighs 12.5 grams. That's 11.25 grams of silver.

No not when either of the Kennedy brothers were shot. Robert Kennedy was shot at a convention as he was departing. President Kennedy was shot in Dallas while riding in a car with his wife Jackie, Governor and his wife connally. The kids of these men were no where near when it happened.

Yes- there is little doubt that he did even though he did not live to stand trial and be convicted.

No. John F. Kennedy was not a Mason (or Freemason). No one in his immediate family was, either. Typically, American Roman Catholics did not join the Masonic fraternity, although the Masonic fraternity would have accepted them. Freemasonry is much stronger among Catholics in countries where it is openly oppressed by the Church hierarchy. Traditionally, the Roman Catholic Church has always had a problem with a fraternity that encourages free public education, freedom of religion, etc. However, many famous Roman Catholics have been Freemasons.

The nation's only Catholic president to date, John F. Kennedy, used his family's Douay Version of the Bible. The 1850 edition was brought by his Fitzgerald ancestors from Ireland, according to the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston. That Bible, a massive tome now on display at the library, was kept current with records of family births through the time of Kennedy's presidency.

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http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0500250.htm

He was a US Naval officer from 1941 to 1945. He was elected to the House of Representatives in 1946 and to the Senate in 1953.

Kennedy wanted the US to compete with the Soviets in space. Politics was also a factor. The Democrats wanted to win the south and many of the contracts for the space program went to southern states.

For the Kennedy White House, the Secret Service purchased a convertible parade limousine custom built by Hess & Eisenhart of Cincinnati, Ohio from a 1961 Lincoln four-door convertible. Code named the SS-100-X, it was in this car that JFK was assassinated in 1963. By that time, the front of the car had been updated with the grille/headlight/bumper assembly from the 1962 model. After the assassination, the limousine was returned to Hess & Eisenhart, where it was repaired and retrofitted with full armor and a fixed roof. It subsequently continued in service for the White House for many years. This world-famous car is now on display at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan.

The ashes of John F Kennedy Jr were scattered at sea from a US Navy destroyer, along with those of his wife and sister-in-law. In a sombre, private ceremony aboard the destroyer USS Briscoe, the ashes were committed to the sea off the Massachusetts coast.

John F Kennedy was most definitely not gay. He was known for his infidelities - all with women.

The short answer is: John Kennedy was not gay.

The long answer which is historically correct, is by Ian Young in a review of the book "Jack and Clem" aka: "The man who loved JFK"

THE OLD black-and-white photograph shows two good-looking young men sitting close together on the back bumper of a car, their fingers touching gently as they fondle a dachshund pup. The one with glasses is squinting into the light. Both are smiling at the camera. They appear to be a gay couple with their little dog. They are in fact John F. Kennedy, future president of the United States, and K. LeMoyne Billings, his best friend and intimate companion. "That John Kennedy maintained a deep friendship with a man whom he knew to be gay, and did so in an age of homophobia-at great potential risk to his political career and reputation-is an extraordinary demonstration of loyalty and commitment," writes David Pitts, author of the first full account of what he characterizes as "a love story unknown to most Americans." But, he reminds us, "risk avoidance was not part of Jack Kennedy's DNA." Young Jack met the boy who was to be his lifelong best friend when they were prep school classmates together at Choate. Jack, the son of a self-made Boston Irish millionaire, was a wealthy, bright, good-looking boy with a wicked sense of fun. He was also skinny, sickly, and frail, continually falling ill and being subjected to various medical tests. Lem Billings, from a distinguished old American Protestant family, was taller, bigger, stronger, with a high-pitched voice and a loud laugh. They shared an insatiable intellectual curiosity, a robust sense of humor, and a disdain for petty rules. Within days of meeting, they were best friends, and their censorious housemaster was grinding his teeth over their "silly giggling" hijinks in the showers and their annoyingly "inseparable companionship." Lem soon became part of Jack's family and a huge favorite of both Kennedy parents.

At Choate, boys who were interested in sexual involvement with other boys were courteous and discreet, writing notes on toilet paper so they could be easily swallowed or flushed. Early on in their friendship, Lem sent Jack such a note and Jack replied in their usual jocular way, adding in parentheses, "Please don't write to me on toilet paper any more. I'm not that kind of boy." With that out of the way, their relationship continued essentially unchanged until JFK's assassination thirty years later. When circumstances determined that Lem and Jack would attend different colleges, they kept in touch by telegram, sometimes dispatching up to seven a day, and they spent their weekends together in New York City.

Throughout his life, Jack Kennedy coped with incapacity and severe pain from his various ailments-Addison's disease, colitis, hepatitis, malaria, recurring infections, and a bad back. Lem knew how to help Jack with all his old problems-and keep them confidential. Jack's medical tribulations are a frequent subject of his amusing early letters to Lem, some of which are quoted in Nigel Hamilton's 1992 book JFK: Reckless Youth. "Nobody is able to figure out what's wrong with me," he wrote from hospital. "They give me enemas till it comes out like drinking water which they all take a sip of," he wrote. "Then surrounded by nurses the doctor first stuck his finger up my ass. I just blushed because you know how it is. He wiggled it suggestively and I rolled 'em in the aisles by saying 'you have a good motion'!!"

Jack's letters to Lem are full of endearments and jokey deprecations ... Sometimes he just tells him, "You're swell!" Billings was "a big, attractive guy who told wonderful stories and cheered everybody up," according to Pitts. Many photos show him roaring with laughter. Jack particularly enjoyed Lem's comic songs, his favorite being Lem's impersonation of Mae West singing "I'm No Angel": "Aw come on, let me cling to you like a vine,/ Make that low-down music trickle up your spine./ Baby I can warm you with this love of mine."

The two friends' relationship remained essentially unchanged even when Kennedy became president. He offered Billings a choice of administration posts, but Billings, who worked in advertising and was once offered a job as the Marlboro Man, preferred to buy and restore old houses. He stayed frequently in the White House, where he had his own room; only he, the President, and Jackie required no White House pass. He traveled and holidayed regularly with Kennedy, who would often introduce him to foreign dignitaries as "Admiral Billings" or "Undersecretary Billings."

Jack Kennedy, it seems, was perfectly comfortable around gay people. Another gay friend, aviation adviser Langdon Marvin, recalls a discussion that took place while Kennedy was in the bath, with Sinatra singing "All or Nothing at All" on the record player. And seeing Leonard Bernstein and Igor Stravinsky exchanging kisses on both cheeks at a state dinner, Jack asked, "How about me?"

Although heterosexual, Kennedy's interest was in sexual conquest rather than in "spending much time with women." He enjoyed the company of bold, intelligent men who had a good sense of humor. "I just seem to be attracted by men like that," he said. "Maybe it's chemical." He told an aide, "I only got married because I was 37 and people would think I was queer." When he did marry, his wife got along well with Billings, who sometimes had to explain Jack to Jackie-or vice versa. It's easy to forget that in JFK's era, the press was far less intrusive than today. Pitts remarks that Kennedy's aides "knew that the press would never print a story about the President's best friend being gay-no more than they would print anything about his extramarital affairs." Or the precarious state of his health.

The Kennedy-Billings friendship was first explored by Peter Collier and David Horowitz in their 1984 book The Kennedys: An American Drama. Nigel Hamilton's JFK: Reckless Youth (1995) drew from the extensive correspondence between Kennedy and Billings (some of Jack's letters to Lem are forty pages long) and Billings' 815-page oral history at the JFK Library. Now Jack & Lem rounds out the story, adding many vivid details, among them the fact that one of Kennedy's favorite gifts from Billings, a whale's-tooth scrimshaw, was buried with him.

After Robert Kennedy's assassination, Billings became a surrogate father to Bobby Jr. and other Kennedy boys, several of whom have spoken of Billings with great affection. His leadership helped establish the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the John F. Kennedy Library. Senator Ted Kennedy described the friendship between his brother and Billings as "a bond of perfect trust and understanding that served them all their lives." Eunice Kennedy Shriver is quoted as saying that "President Kennedy was a completely liberated man when he was with Lem." Another friend remarks of the two men's relationship, "it was love, and not all love has to be consummated." so he was gay

I am no expert but Jet magazine has a large circulation and old magazines are not worth much unless they are really old. If you offer it on e-bay somebody might pay a dollar or two for it.

John F. Kennedy was criticized as a president because he focused a lot of money on space exploration and the cold war while there was starvation around the world. Critics wanted him to focus on poverty reduction and peace.

Civil Rights, Tax cuts, Women's rights, minimum wage and health care. hope this helps

John Fitzgerald Kennedy the 35th President.

concern with international crises and the threat of nuclear war

When John F Kennedy was studying at HarvardÊhe became interested in politics. John F. Kennedy first entered politics in 1947 when he ran for the House of Representatives.

I had to change your wording because the word "your" implies that one of us in the answers group has such a coin, which we don't, LOL!

Anyway, the U.S. did not mint any silver half dollars in 1979. All were made of cupronickel - look at the edge and you'll see the copper core. As such your coin is a regular circulation issue worth face value. Fee free to spend it on a newspaper or candy bar.

At 11:21 AM on 24 November 1963.

No. He was shot in the back of the head.

A historical reference for this question is to read: Jacqueline Kennedy: Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy, with Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Transcripts and Annotations by Micheal Beschloss, and Introduction by Caroline Kennedy.

He had 3 brothers and 5 sisters. In high school he had a gay best friend who had a crush on him. He didn't graduate highschool in the top half of his class. He lost his virginity at age 17 to a prostitute for $3.

Really, he wasnt in office long enough to truly inpact the world

What Kenned meant when he said, "And so my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you- ask what you can do for your country," was he wanted to inform that he was going to do alot for the country, but he needed everyones help. He was trying to say that the country coudn't do it without him and the people. Everyone needed to work together to accomplish facing the nation's challenges with determination,l which President Kennedy promised.

-Liz

He was born May 29, 1917.

He was assassinated Friday November 22, 1963

That means he was 16978 days old - which works out to be 46 years 177 days or about 46 years, 5 months, 24 days. (Since months are variable in length, stating ages in months is slightly imprecise).

Kennedy was a US President who suffered a tragic end. He will not be forgotten for a long time and he was a true son of Massachusetts, born there, grew up there, went to college there and represented Massachusetts in both houses of Congress.