Lyndon b johnson childhood timelime full#
Full of energy and ambition, Jack’s father worked very hard at becoming a successful businessman. It was a lovely house with twelve rooms, turreted windows, and a big porch.
When Jack was three, the Kennedys moved to a new home a few blocks away from their old house in Brookline, a neighborhood just outside of Boston. But Jack was never very healthy, and because he was always suffering from one ailment or another his family used to joke about the great risk a mosquito took in biting him – with some of his blood the mosquito was almost sure to die! Kennedy went to the hospital every day to be by his son’s side, and about a month later Jack took a turn for the better and recovered. His father, Joseph Patrick Kennedy, was terrified that little Jack would die. On Februwhen Jack was not yet three years old, he became sick with scarlet fever, a highly contagious and then potentially life-threatening disease. Jack was not a very healthy baby, and Rose recorded on his notecard the childhood diseases from which he suffered, such as: "whooping cough, measles, chicken pox." Before long, family and friends called this small blue-eyed baby, Jack. John Fitzgerald Kennedy was named in honor of Rose’s father, John Francis Fitzgerald, the Boston Mayor popularly known as Honey Fitz. She kept notecards for each of them in a small wooden file box and made a point of writing down everything from a doctor’s visit to the shoe size they had at a particular age. In all, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy would have nine children, four boys and five girls.
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