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Nov 16, 2009 · Lieutenant John F. Kennedy receives the Navy and Marine Corps Medal—one of the Navy’s highest honors for gallantry—for his heroic actions as the commanding officer of a motor torpedo boat...
May 17, 2024 · With Executive Order 11085 (signed February 22, 1963), Pres. John F. Kennedy re-established the award as the Presidential Medal of Freedom and expanded its scope to include cultural achievements. The first recipients, selected by Kennedy, received their medals from his successor, Lyndon B. Johnson, on December 6, 1963, at the White House ...
Those who received the award with Special Distinction: President Johnson conferred the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously on His Holiness, Pope John XXIII. He also awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously to President John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to as JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. He was the youngest person elected president. [2] .
His bravery and injury sustained during that mission would earn him a Navy & Marine Corps Medal and the Purple Heart. That experience left an undeniable mark on the man who would become the nation’s 35 th president.
These awards were presented by President Lyndon B. Johnson on December 6, 1963, as well as the one shown here, conferred posthumously to John F. Kennedy and accepted by Robert F. Kennedy.
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