John Kennedy
their winter home in Palm Beach, Florida, purchased in 1933. In his primary school years, he attended Riverdale
Country School, a private school for boys in Riverdale, for 5th through 7th grade.
For 8th grade in September 1930, the 13-year old Kennedy was sent fifty miles away to Canterbury School, a lay
Roman Catholic boarding school for boys in New Milford, Connecticut. In late April 1931, he had appendicitis
requiring an appendectomy, after which he withdrew from Canterbury and recuperated at home.
In September 1931, Kennedy was sent to The Choate School (now Choate Rosemary Hall), an elite boys boarding
school in Wallingford, Connecticut, for his 9th through 12th grade years. His older brother Joe Jr., was already at
Choate, two years ahead of him, a football star and leading student in the school. Jack thus spent his first years at
Choate in his brother's shadow. He reacted with rebellious behavior that attracted a coterie. Their most notorious stunt
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