JFK’s Young Life
John, who was also nicknamed JFK later on, was expected to do what most other Fitzgerald and Kennedy men did, and that was to succeed in whatever he did. But as a young child, he was often beset with illness, as well as multiple trips in and out of the hospital. In fact, when he was less than 3-years old, he got scarlet fever and it was feared that he may actually die. Thankfully he survived, but he would continue to fall sick and even had a leukemia scare at one point in his college days. His sicknesses would happen so often that they would actually become a running joke in his family. But as time went on, his health actually got better, as did he.
