The son of a bootlegger that rose to national prominence as an advisor to President Roosevelt, his father pulled strings to get him a PT Boat assignment when the navy had judged him medically unfit. During his first month of combat, his boat gets run over accidentally by a Japanese destroyer, and he and his crew spend a week on a desert island, getting rescued after writing notes on cocoanuts and dropping them in the water. He gets out of the Navy and writes one book, which wins a Pulitzer prize. He gets elected to the Senate, then to the White House, has an affair with Marilyn Monroe, then the Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis. He's so popular the actors on the Dick Van Dyke show are cast partially because they look like him and his wife. His head blows up on television, his alleged murderer is murdered on live television and Kennedy's death becomes a billion dollar whodoneit industry, and possibly the most famous unsolved crime in history.
If I wrote that as a book, no one would believe it.
“If someone had written him as a fictional character, no one would have believed him.”
If only he were hunted relentlessly by a Detective who falsly believed he murdered his wife, while chasing the one-armed man who really killed her...THAT would have put it over the top...
JFK was an interesting man but many of your facts are in error. Profiles in Courage was ghost written. His PT boat was not run over accidentally but rammed.
It is true that he wanted to get into combat which he used political influence to get a command.
All in all, one of the best of the Kennedys, but he also had an affair with an East German spy.