A Kennedy Family Album
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 1917-1963
JFK, the second eldest Kennedy sibling, was the 35th President of the United States. Elected to the highest office at the extraordinarily young age of 43, he was struck down by an assassin's bullet in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963.
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