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John Fitzgerald Kennedy was an American politician and statesman, 35th President of the United States (1961-1963).
John was born in a family of natives of Ireland, his father - Joseph Kennedy - a Democratic politician, who headed the Securities and Exchange Commission in the 1930s, was U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain. John studied at Harvard and Princeton Universities and traveled to Europe in 1937. During World War II he served in the U.S. Navy and received a number of awards, and immediately after the war he entered politics.
In 1946, John F. Kennedy was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts, in 1952, with the help of financial support from the Kennedy family won election to the Senate and held the post until the end of 1960. In the presidential election of 1960, 43-year-old Kennedy with a small margin of victory over Richard Nixon, becoming the 35th President of the United States.
The time of Kennedy's presidency was marked by the escalation of the Cold War. Its peak was the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, when the confrontation between Washington and Moscow almost led to nuclear war. With great difficulty the parties managed to reach a compromise - during the negotiations the USSR undertook to remove missiles from Cuba in return for the dismantling of American missiles in Turkey. Since the beginning of 1963, the U.S. President increasingly spoke out in favor of peaceful coexistence with the Soviet Union. In August 1963, the U.S., USSR and Great Britain signed a treaty banning nuclear weapons tests in the atmosphere, outer space and underwater, which entered into force in October 1963. In the same 1963, when the country was hit by a wave of protests of the colored population, he introduced a bill in Congress that banned segregation in public places.
On November 22, 1963, during a trip to Dallas, Texas, John F. Kennedy was fatally wounded. He was 46 years old. Lee Harvey Oswald was held as the prime suspect in the assassination, who was shot and killed two days later by Jack Ruby in the garage of the Dallas police station. There are various versions of the reasons for the President's assassination, but none of them has been fully proven so far.
In his free time from politics, John F. Kennedy managed to write a book "Stories of Courage", for which he received the Pulitzer Prize in 1957. These are biographies of people whom he considered to be models of courage in politics. In 1958, Kennedy published a book called A Nation of Immigrants.
Margaret Bourke-White was an American photographer and photojournalist. She studied photography at the Clarence H. White School of Photography. White, where she developed her trademark style using dramatic angles and strong contrasts of light and shadow.
Burke-White was one of the first women photographers to work for Life magazine, and her images became synonymous with the magazine's coverage of major world events such as World War II and the Korean War. She was also the first woman photographer to work in war zones during World War II, where she captured powerful images of warfare and its impact on civilians.
In addition to war photography, Bourke-White also documented the Great Depression in the United States and was one of the few photographers to gain access to the Soviet Union in the 1930s where she documented Soviet industrialization and the lives of ordinary people.
Bourke-White's work was known for its powerful impact and stark realism. She often risked her safety to get the perfect shot and her images continue to inspire photographers today. She published several books of her work, including 'Eyes on Russia' and 'Dear Fatherland, Rest in Peace'.
Bourke-White left behind a legacy as one of the greatest photojournalists of the 20th century.
