John F. KennedyArticle Free Pass John F. Kennedy, in full John
Fitzgerald Kennedy, byname JFK (born May 29, 1917, Brookline,
Massachusetts, U.S.—died November 22, 1963, Dallas, Texas), 35th
president of the United States (1961–63), who faced a number of
foreign crises, especially in Cuba and Berlin, but managed to
secure such achievements as the Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty and the
Alliance for Progress. He was assassinated while riding in a
motorcade in Dallas. (For a discussion of the history and nature
of the presidency, see presidency of the United States of
America.) The second of nine children, Kennedy was reared in a
family that demanded intense physical and intellectual
competition among the siblings—the family’s touch football games
at their Hyannis Port retreat later became legendary—and was
schooled in the religious teachings of the Roman Catholic church
and the political precepts of the Democratic Party. His father,
Joseph Patrick Kennedy, had acquired a multimillion-dollar
fortune in banking, bootlegg