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John F. Kennedy Born

John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born at 83 Beals Street in Brookline, Massachusetts on Tuesday, May 29, 1917, at 3:00 PM, the second son of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr, and Rose Fitzgerald; Rose, in turn, was the eldest child of John “Honey Fitz” Fitzgerald, a prominent Boston political figure who was the city’s mayor and a [...]

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US Army Military Intelligence Section Created

World War I began the modern era of code-breaking and intelligence gathering. Major Ralph Van Deman, the “father of American intelligence,” created the Military Intelligence Section in the Army General Staff, and a Cipher Bureau (MI-8) within this section. Known as the Father of Military Intelligence, Ralph Van Deman had worked as a young lieutenant [...]

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