Jeff kennedy biography

Jeffery Kennedy

Jeffery Kennedy is an Associate Professor in the School of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies at Arizona State University, where he is celebrating his 23rd year of teaching courses in interdisciplinary arts and performance. He served as the West campus artistic director from 2002-2006 and then again from 2012-2015, where he was the producer of the campus series of artistic and cultural events, which featured guest artists that included Broadway stars Donna McKechnie, Pamela Myers, acapella group Pentatonix, and Hamilton's Leslie Odom, Jr. The focus of his teaching is the elements and structures of art-making genres, concepts, and methodology used in creating interdisciplinarity art and performance. He also teaches American theatre and music history, courses in music composition, voice for the performer, and graduate courses in interdisciplinary concepts and research methodology. As a music theatre professional, he worked on production staffs for Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine and has been a music director and pianist for Broad

John F. Kennedy

1917-1963

Who Was John F. Kennedy?

John F. Kennedy served in both the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate before becoming the 35th American president in 1961. While in the White House, Kennedy faced a number of foreign crises, especially in Cuba and Berlin, but managed to secure such achievements as the Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty and the Alliance for Progress. On November 22, 1963, Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas. He was 46 years old.

Quick Facts

FULL NAME: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
BORN: May 29, 1917
DIED: November 22, 1963
BIRTHPLACE: Brookline, Massachusetts
SPOUSE: Jaqueline Kennedy (1953-1963)
CHILDREN: Caroline Kennedy, John F. Kennedy Jr., and Patrick Kennedy
ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: Gemini

Early Life

John F. Kennedy as a baby, circa 1918

John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born on May 29, 1917, in Brookline, Massachusetts. Both the Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys were wealthy and prominent Irish Catholic families in Boston. John’s paternal grandfather, P.J. Kennedy, was a wealthy banker and liquor trader, and his materna

Life of John F. Kennedy

Growing Up in the Kennedy Family

Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, who was a very disciplined and organized woman, made the following entry on a notecard, when her second child was born:

John Fitzgerald Kennedy 
Born Brookline, Mass. (83 Beals Street) May 29, 1917 

In all, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy would have nine children, four boys and five girls. She kept notecards for each of them in a small wooden file box and made a point of writing down everything from a doctor’s visit to the shoe size they had at a particular age. John Fitzgerald Kennedy was named in honor of Rose’s father, John Francis Fitzgerald, the Boston Mayor popularly known as Honey Fitz. Before long, family and friends called this small blue-eyed baby, Jack. Jack was not a very healthy baby, and Rose recorded on his notecard the childhood diseases from which he suffered, such as: "whooping cough, measles, chicken pox."

On February 20, 1920 when Jack was not yet three years old, he became sick with scarlet fever, a highly contagious and then potentially life-threatening disease. H

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