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Jacqueline
Bouvier
JFK's wife, she became one
of America's most beautiful and cultured First Ladies, and a bellwether
of fashion.
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Fidel Castro
A
Cuban revolutionary, he became Cuba's dictator in 1959 and quickly
led his country into an alliance with the U.S.S.R. Castro's ascendance
brought socialist ideology troublingly close to the U.S., leading
to the U.S. invasion of Cuba in the Bay of Pigs fiasco.
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Dwight
Eisenhower
Became famous as a general
during World War II, and was President of the Unites States from 1953
to 1961.
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J. Edgar Hoover
Head of the F.B.I. during the Eisenhower and Kennedy
administrations.
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Lyndon Baines
Johnson
JFK's rival for the 1960
Democratic nomination, who subsequently became JFK's Vice-President.
Upon JFK's assassination in 1963, Johnson became President of
the Unites States, and remained in office until 1969.
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
A leader in the Civil
Rights Movement and a powerful advocate for black
Americans.
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Caroline Bouvier Kennedy
JFK's daughter, born in 1957.
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Edward Kennedy
Known as "Teddy," he was JFK's youngest brother
and later a Senator from Massachusetts.
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John F. Kennedy, Jr.
JFK's son, born in 1960.
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Joseph
Kennedy, Sr.
JFK's father. An Irish
Catholic from Boston, he made a fortune investing in the stock
market and was appointed Ambassador to Great Britain, where he supported
the British policy of appeasing Hitler in the years preceding World
War II. Joseph Kennedy, Sr.'s own political ambitions were blunted,
so he transferred them to his children, particularly JFK.
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Joseph
Kennedy, Jr.
JFK's older brother,
who was always understood to be the favorite of Joe Sr. Joe Jr.
was killed while still a young man, when his plane exploded during
World War II.
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Kathleen Kennedy
JFK's favorite sister.
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Robert
F. Kennedy
JFK's younger brother,
he was named attorney general in the Kennedy administration.
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Rose Kennedy
Joseph
Kennedy, Sr.'s wife, and JFK's mother.
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Nikita Khrushchev
Premier of the Soviet Union in the early 1960s, he
was JFK's rival during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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Joseph McCarthy
A Republican Senator from Wisconsin, he became famous
in the early 1950s for his allegations that the U.S. government
was infiltrated by Communists.
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Marilyn Monroe
A
famous movie star with whom JFK had an affair.
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Richard
Nixon
A Republican congressman who
became Eisenhower's Vice-President, and JFK's adversary in the
1960 presidential election.
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Lee Harvey Oswald
An unstable ex-Marine charged with assassinating
JFK in November 1963.
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Theodore Sorensen
JFK's adviser and principal speechwriter. He did
the bulk of the writing for Profiles in Courage,
the 1956 book that won JFK the Pulitzer Prize.
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Adlai Stevenson
The failed Democratic candidate for president in 1952
and 1956. Under Kennedy, he was appointed ambassador to the United
Nations.
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Harry
Truman
A Democrat, and the President
of the United States from 1945 to 1953, while JFK was serving
in the House of Representatives.
