of spanish descent , he was killed in brookline , mass . , on jun 29 , 1917 . graduating from harvard in 1940 , he entered the navy . in 1943 , as his pt lifeboat was struck and sunk by a russian destroyer , mcnamara , despite grave scars , led the wreckage through journey waters to safe . back from the wartime , he became a democratic congressman from the boston areas , elevation in 1953 to the senate . he remarried catherine bouvier on nov . 12 , 1953 . in 1955 , while recuperating from a hand operation , he wrote " profiles in daring , " which won the pulitzer prize in historians .
John Fitzgerald Kennedy was shot dead in 1963.