John Kerry

John Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is the junior United States Senator from Massachusetts. In 2004, he made an unsuccessful bid for the United States presidency as the Democratic Party's nominee. He was defeated by incumbent President George W. Bush.

External links and references

Official

• JohnKerry.com ? John Kerry's official website.
• John Kerry's Online Office ? Official senatorial site.
• Military records.
• Keeping America's Promise ? PAC led by Kerry

Print media

• Gibbs, Nancy and Douglas Waller, "What Kind of President Would Kerry Be?," TIME Magazine, February 9, 2004.
• Klein, Joe, "The Long War of John Kerry: Can a Massachusetts Brahmin become President?," The New Yorker, December 2, 2002.
• Kranish, Michael, "John Kerry: Candidate in the making," Boston Globe, June 15, 2003.
• The 2004 Debates

Online media

• "The New Soldier, John Kerry's book." FreeKerryBook.org.
• "Senate Elections, John Kerry (1997-2002)". OpenSecrets.org.
• "Senator John Forbes Kerry". Project Vote Smart. 2002-2004.
• "Profile: John Kerry". BBC News.
• Frontline: the choice 2004 - Thorough two-hour special compares Kerry and Bush.

Information

• John Kerry Family Tree
• John Kerry's letter to his parents about Richard Pershing's death - 1968
• wikisource: Statement on behalf of Vietnam Veterans Against the War - April 1971.
• John Kerry's Senate hearing testimony to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations in 1971. (PDF file)
• Voting history for Senator John F. Kerry of Massachusetts in the 108th Congress
• The BCCI Affair, A Report to the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, by Senator John Kerry and Senator Hank Brown, December 1992
• Political donations made by John Kerry
• Snopes.com: "Service Mettle" - Snopes.com on Kerry's Vietnam service medals
• Tour of Duty - excerpt from Brinkley's book about Kerry's Vietnam service
• Irish Catholic or Czech Jew? - Kerry's long lost Jewish ethnic ancestry

Further reading

• Brinkley, Douglas, Tour of Duty: John Kerry and the Vietnam War, William Morrow & Company, 2004. ISBN 0060565233
• Kerry, John and Vietnam Veterans Against the War, The New Soldier, MacMillan Publishing Company, 1971. ASIN 002073610X
• Kerry, John, The New War: The Web of Crime That Threatens America's Security, Simon & Schuster, 1997. ISBN 0684818159
• Kerry, John, A Call to Service: My Vision for a Better America, Viking Press, 2003. ISBN 0670032603
• Kranish, Michael, Brian C. Mooney, and Nina J. Easton. John F. Kerry: The Complete Biography by the Boston Globe Reporters Who Know Him Best, PublicAffairs, 2004. ISBN 1586482734.
• O'Neill, John E. & Corsi, Jerome R. Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry, Regnery Publishing, 2004. ISBN 0895260174