- Madame Tussauds Berlin, Berlin 100!
"Ick bin ein Berliner!"
John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born in Massachusetts in 1917 to a wealthy family. His family moved frequently, allowing him to attend private schools in various states.
He volunteered for the military in 1941 and saved the life of a fellow soldier during a mission in 1943. His brother, Joseph Kennedy, on the other hand, did not survive the war. Actually, their father had seen Joseph as a politician and future president of the United States, but after his death he put his efforts into John.
Kennedy was first a congressman before becoming senator for Massachusetts in 1952. He eventually won the 1960 presidential election and, at 43, became the youngest president of the United States after Theodore Roosevelt.
Many significant events, such as the Cuban Missile Crisis and the construction of the Berlin Wall, occurred during his term as president, which lasted only 1,036 days. Although JFK had to struggle with numerous illnesses throughout his life, he did not die of one of these, as he himself had predicted, but was shot by an assassin on November 22, 1963, during an election campaign trip.
