On May 29, 1917 John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born in Brookline Massachusetts, from Irish descent (“John F. Kennedy”). Graduating from Harvard in 1940, he entered the Navy, and he would be wounded in World War II during 1943 as a Lieutenant due to a Japanese warship attack on his boat (“World War II and a future in politics”). After his recovery, he was a politician for many years from 1946 to early 1960 (“John F. Kennedy”). His life changed when became the youngest man and the first Roman Catholic elected to office as the 35th President of the United States of America at 43 years old on November 8, 1960 beating Richard M. Nixon (“World War II and a future in politics”). An accomplishment he achieved was, he responded to urgent demands by taking strong action for equal rights, calling for a new civil rights legislation. (“John F. Kennedy”). He also accomplished establishing the Peace Corps, “an organization that is now responsible for sending thousands of American volunteers around the world to help the needy” (“JFK’s Top 10 Accomplishments”). In 1962, President John F. Kennedy a established a small, elite maritime military force to conduct Unconventional Warfare called the United States Navy's Sea, Air, and Land Teams, commonly known as Navy SEALs which changed how America’s Military and other countries’ militaries had fought forever (“JFK Legacy: Navy SEALs”). On November 22, 1963, he was killed by an assassin's bullets as his motorcade wound through Dallas, Texas as the youngest man elected President and the youngest to die, barely passing his 1,000 days in office (“John F. Kennedy”).