John Fitzgerald Kennedy, which was born in May 29, 1917 to November 22,

1963,

was the 35th president of the United States. Known as JFK, he was one of the most

important presidents, unfortunately getting shot (assassinated) in November 22, 1963.

Kennedy represented the state of Massachusetts in the House of Representatives from

1947 to 1953 as a democrat and in the U.S. Senate from 1953 until 1960. Kennedy

defeated the Vice President and Republican candidate Richard Nixon in the 1960 U.S.

presidential election, one of the most important person in American history. Kennedy was

also a very smart person during his school time, getting into private and catholic schools,

even getting into college (Harvard) in 1936. Kennedy also toured Europe, into Soviet

Union, the Balkans and the Middle East to gather background information for his

Harvard senior honors thesis. From September to December 1940, Kennedy was enrolled

and audited classes at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. “He became a

Democratic Congressman from the Boston area, advancing in 1953 to the Senate. He

married Jacqueline Bouvier on September 12, 1953. In 1955, while recuperating from a

back operation, he wrote Profiles in Courage, which won the Pulitzer Prize in

history”(whitehouse.gov). On January 2, 1960, Kennedy officially declared his intent to

run for President of the United States. In the Democratic primary election, he faced

challenges from Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota and Senator Wayne Morse of

Oregon. Kennedy defeated Humphrey in Wisconsin and West Virginia and Morse in

Maryland and Oregon, although Morse's candidacy is often forgotten by historians. He

also defeated token opposition (often write-in candidates) in New Hampshire, Indiana

and Nebraska (wikipedia.org).

President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, at 12:30 p.m.

Central Standard Time on November 22, 1963, while on a political trip to Texas. He was

shot twice in the neck and head, and was pronounced dead at 1:00 p.m. Lee Harvey

Oswald was arrested at a movie theater at about 1:50 p.m. He denied shooting anyone,

claiming he was a patsy, and was killed by Jack Ruby on November 24, before he could

be indicted or tried (millercenter.org). President Johnson created the Warren

Commission—chaired by Chief Justice Earl Warren—to investigate the assassination. It

concluded that Oswald was the lone assassin, but this remains disputed by some scholars

and eyewitnesses. Conspiracy theories about the assassination and supposed cover-up

have been put forward and have become commonplace in popular culture.

Wikipedia.com; JFK
Whitehouse.gov; History of John F. Kennedy
Millercenter.org/academic/americanpresident/kennedy; JFK, an online resource