高级英语第二册unit 4.doc

Unit 4 John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963) 35th president of the United States Family Background Kennedy抯 ancestors came from Ireland and he was the first Roman Catholic to become president of the U.S. He was born on May 29, 1917 in Brookline, Massachusetts, where his grandfather had been elected to many offices. His father Joseph P. Kennedy became the youngest bank president of the country at the age of 25. On September 12, 1953, Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier were married. They had three children. He wrote Profiles in Courage,《勇敢者传略》which won a Pulitzer prize. 1947-1952 served as representative in the congress 1952 elected to the senate 1960 won the Democratic nomination for president and defeated Richard Nixon, Republican Assassination His assassination at Dallas in November 1963 was a shock from which the U.S. has found it hard to recover and the murder is still a riddle. In 1963, Kennedy journeyed to Texas for a speech-making tour. on November 22, he and his wife were cheered as their open car passed through the streets. Suddenly, at 12:30 in the afternoon, an assassin fired several shots, striking the president twice in the base of the neck and the head. Kennedy was rushed to Hospital, where he was pronounced dead about a half hour later. Within two hours, Vice president Johnson took the oath as president. Contributions 1. His most important act was his successful demand on Oct.22, 1962 that the Soviet Union dismantle its missile bases in Cuba. 2. He established a quarantine(隔离检疫期) of arms shipments to Cuba 3. He defied Soviet attempts to force the Allies out of Berlin. 4. He made the steel industry rescind(废除) a price rise. 5. He backed: civil rights movements; a mental health program; arbitration of railroad disputes; expanded medical care for the aged; astronaut flights and satellite orbiting Lincoln and Kennedy Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846. John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946. Abraham Lincoln was elected Presid