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He was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, on May 29, 1917. He was an Irish descent. He graduated at Harvard in 1940, and he entered the Navy. In 1943, when his PT boat was rammed and sunk by a Japanese destroyer, Kennedy, despite grave injuries, led the survivors through perilous waters to safety.
He was assassinated in Texas on November 22, 1963.
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