Happy Birthday, Mr. President
Before he was inaugurated, John F. Kennedy came home to Boston, where he told a packed crowd at the State House that he was a “man from Massachusetts.’’
Kennedy was always proud of his home. The late president, who would’ve turned 98 on May 29, was born in Brookline in 1917. He would grow up to fulfill the (male) Kennedy tradition of graduating from Harvard, and went on to serve as a representative in the U.S. House before he was elected to the U.S. Senate. He was elected president in 1960.
In 1928, before their son became a politician, Joseph Kennedy Sr. and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy purchased a summer home in Hyannis Port, now known as the “Kennedy Compound.’’ Photos of the Kennedys sailing, eating ice cream and strolling on the beach have become iconic indicators of a summer at the Cape.
Here’s a look at JFK’s life in New England:
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