JOSEPH P. KENNEDY JR. BORN IN HULL, MASSACHUSETTS
Hull, Massachusetts (JFK+50) Joseph Patrick Kennedy, Jr.*, older brother of future POTUS John F. Kennedy, was born in Hull, Massachusetts on July 25, 1915. the first child of Joseph Patrick Kennedy, Sr. and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy.
Joe Junior was delivered in a rented cottage on Atlantic Avenue in Nantasket by Kennedy family physician Dr. Frederick L. Good.
JFK+50 NOTE
It was Joe Junior who was expected to enter politics as an adult and become the first Catholic POTUS. He was an accomplished student and star athlete in prep school & college.
His untimely death in 1944, led to the family expectations for Joe Jr. to be transferred to JFK. Jack wrote a book in honor of his older brother titled "We Remember Joe".
*Joseph Patrick Kennedy, Jr. (1915-1944) graduated from Harvard University in 1938 & studied at the London School of Economics. JPK Jr. was a delegate to the 1940 Democratic National Convention & joined the U.S. Navy in WWII. He was killed during a dangerous top secret mission.
SOURCE
"Kennedys Announce Birth Of First Child, July 25, 1915," JFK+50, July 25, 2011, www.jfk50.blogspot.com/
