Sample sentences for JOHN F. KENNEDY

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35th President of the United States; established the Peace Corps, Space Race, and partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty; ordered the Bay of Pigs invasion and response to the Cuban Missile Crisis; assassinated (1917-1963)

His name was John F. Kennedy.
Homer Hickam -- October Sky

First he rang Federal Judge Woodrow Seals, a feisty old guy who had been appointed by President John F. Kennedy.
Li Cunxin -- Mao's Last Dancer
John Kennedy was a so-and-so—
John Steinbeck -- Travels with Charley
John Kennedy's genius, he'd read somewhere, was that he worked out one problem at a time.
John Gardner -- The Sunlight Dialogues
, who had been a childhood sweetheart of John F. Kennedy in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts.
Kurt Vonnegut -- Slaughterhouse-Five
He loved the freedom to follow his passions: for John F. Kennedy, for Fred Astaire, for Ted Williams.
Jay Allison, et al. -- This I Believe
It reminded me of the eternal flame they'd put on John F. Kennedy's grave that will never go out no matter what.
Sue Monk Kidd -- The Secret Life of Bees
In the place of honor hung a picture showing, side by side with his own face, the smiling face of John F. Kennedy.
Milan Kundera -- The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Outside of scores of confirmed hits, many think he was the puff of smoke on the grassy knoll in Dallas, the true killer of John Kennedy.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Ultimatum
It was the school John F. Kennedy attended as a child.
Wes Moore -- The Other Wes Moore
I was as sure of Them as I was of other people I had never met but had heard of, like my grandfather Charlie Bundrum, or John Kennedy, or Alan Ladd.
Rick Bragg -- All Over but the Shoutin'
It avoids what linguists call the intrusive "r," pronouncing saw as sawr or, as John Kennedy did, Cuba as Cuber.
Robert MacNeil and William Crane -- Do You Speak American?
With Alice beside me, I slowly cruised through Golden Gate Park on John F. Kennedy Drive.
Dave Peizer -- A Man Named Dave
"John F. Kennedy," he said.
Pat Conroy -- The Water is Wide
We'd never been to Dallas before, and the next day, we decided to visit the John F. Kennedy memorial, as part of our "Highlights of Texas" tour.
James Patterson -- Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports
She was lighting the pilot light in the oven when they announced John F. Kennedy was dead, and she sat right down on the kitchen floor and cried.
Kaye Gibbons -- My Mother, Literature, and a Life Split Neatly into Two Halves
Surely, John F. Kennedy (who was six feet tall according to his biography, my height exactly) did not have to squat at his boarding school.
John Green -- Looking for Alaska
Do you, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, do solemnly swear ....
Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Kennedy
John F. Kennedy began his public service career as a PT-boat commander in the South Pacific in World War II.
John F. Kennedy -- Profiles in Courage
A half-dozen oils, one of them a portrait of the ship's namesake, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, dotted the other walls, themselves covered with expensive-looking paneling.
Tom Clancy -- The Hunt for Red October

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