Before the White House, Kennedy was a high-school prankster

BOSTON (Reuters) - Years before he captained the torpedo boat PT-109, ran for office or set the United States on a path to put a man on the moon, President John F. Kennedy was a troublesome teen whose hijinks nearly got him kicked out of his prestigious boarding school.

The scion of a wealthy Boston family, Kennedy spent his mid-teens at Connecticut's elite Choate Rosemary Hall, where he excelled at history and literature - but infuriated the school's headmaster by organising pranks as a member of an unofficial school club known as "The Muckers."