how did john f. kennedy get his knickname of "jack?
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Jack is a nickname of John.  It's that simple.  Nothing mysterious here.
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Giancanna (sp?) was the Chicago mob boss in the 50s and 60s and knew Kennedy's father from prohibition days.  Kennedy's father told G that JFK had to win Illinios to win the election.  G made all his union leaders campaign for Kennedy.  When JFK won, G thought he had the president in his back pocket. JFK disagreed and he & his brother attacked the mob.  Eventually they both died.  Go to netflix.com and search for documentarys on Giancanna.  It's fascinating.
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In many cases last names derived from what people did for a living. Imagine a village where several men named "John" live. In conversation, you might distinguish between one John and all the others by saying "John The Blacksmith", or "John The Baker". Eventually, human nature being what it is, people would drop the "The", and you'd be left with "John Blacksmith" and "John Baker".\n\nAnother way last names came into being was as a method of indicating lineage or parentage. "John MacDonald", in Scotland, used to literally mean "John, son of Donald."
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Jack can be a nickname for John, for some reason.  (shrug)
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JFK stands for John Fitzgerald Kennedy.\n\nJFK was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald but there is significant controversy about if Oswald was the only killer.
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Put the name in quotes when you type it in.  "John Smith"
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John F. Kennedy has been the only Catholic President of the United States.  You must be careful however when you ask this question.  In your question you used a lower case 'c' when you wrote catholic, in this case it simply means universal and does not refer to the Roman Catholic Church with a capital 'C'.
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Jack to John? haven't heard that one before.
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He's always referred to as Jack in the book and by the author of the book, but I don't think the movie ever comes out and says that.  The only reference is when he's reading those books that say, "I am Jack's (whatever)."\n\nEDIT:  Yeah, he was making reference to those books.  I'm saying that every time the AUTHOR (Chuck Palahniuk) makes a reference to that character, he just calls him Jack.  Whether or not that was the original intent is beyond me.  I figure I'll just listen to the guy that wrote the story when it comes to things like that.
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Officially: Lee Harvey Oswald\n\nUnofficially: ? \nThere is a conspiracy out there to hide us from the truth.\nI guess I watched JFK (the movie) too many times.
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Well, that is an answer that probably no one will ever truly know. The name John J. was added for the movie. In the novel written by David Morrell, the character only had the last name..Rambo. \n\nIn the authors words, " In my novel, the character had only the last name. Later, the scriptwriters for the movie gave him a first name "John", as in the song about a returning WWII veteran, "When Johnny Comes Marching Home". "\n\nSo, we can only guess that the J. may stand for James or something like that. Go to the link given for my source and go all the way to the bottom of the page..you'll see that information there. Hope that helps!
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I expect it would have to be a name from the most populated country n the world which is China, I believe.  Therefore names such as John are probably not in the running unless you are referring only to the English speaking and western world.  Some sites say that Muhammad is the most common name in the world.
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The origins of this symbol are unknown, but several theories have been proposed. According to one theory, in its original form, the jackass was born in the intense mudslinging that occurred during the presidential race of 1828 as a play on the name of Andrew Jackson, the Democratic candidate. Jackson had been called "Andrew Jackass," and the defiant Jackson adopted the nickname.\n\nOn January 19, 1870, a political cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly titled "A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion" revived the donkey as a symbol for the Democratic Party (the symbol had also been used in the 1830s). Cartoonists followed Nast and used the donkey to represent the Democrats, and the elephant to represent the Republicans.
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its a generic name for A man and a nickname for a men named John. \nits origin was as an alternate word for Soldier\nJust as we once called British Soldiers   Red Coats\nPeople once called Soldiers  "jacks" because they wore a syle of Coat known as a jacket. \n\nSailors were called Jack Tar's  because their Jackets were splotched with tar stains from the tar used to waterproof wooden ships.
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Either Lincoln or Kennedy
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This is one of those coincidences that isn't a coincidence at all -- it's simply wrong. John Kennedy did have a secretary named Evelyn Lincoln (who may or may not have warned him about going to Dallas), but one searches in vain to find a Lincoln secretary named Kennedy. (Lincoln's White House secretaries were John G. Nicolay and John Hay.) \n\nThe more important point is that since Presidents are frequent recipients of assassination threats, they rarely make any public appearances without somebody's warning them of potential danger. Only on the extemely rare occasions when a tragedy actually occurs do we later take note of the warnings; in all other cases the failed "prophecies" are quickly forgotten. (Lincoln received "an unusual number of letters about plots to kidnap or assassinate him," said to have numbered at least eighty, yet none of those plots were enacted.) Nor does anyone think to mention other attempts at kidnap or assassination that were not preceded by any recorded warnings to the victims. (Lincoln was shot at on at least one other occasion.) \n\nYes, Lincoln was warned not to go to Ford's Theatre by persons concerned for his safety, just as he had been warned not to visit Richmond a week earlier, and just as he had been warned not to attend his own inauguration in 1861. Obviously, only one of the myriad of warnings he received throughout his four years in office was on the mark. Likewise, Kennedy was warned not to visit San Antonio the day before his trip to Dallas (and undoubtedly before a host of other appearances as well), but only the last warning he allegedly received is considered significant, because it coincidentally happened to come true. As Jeane Dixon and other "psychics" have demonstrated, if you make enough predictions, one of them is eventually bound to come true -- just as a stopped clock is also right twice a day.
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the real one JFK because he was a good politician....the fictional...Sherlock Holmes