John Fitzgerald Kennedy (29. 5. 1917 - 22, 11 1963) - President of the United States of America. During his reign, the US faced the Missile Crisis, was built the Berlin Wall, made an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the military Fidel Castro in Cuba. At Kennedy was in 1963 in Dallas assassinated.

JF Kennedy in 1940 with honors graduated from Harvard and the following year joined the Army. As lieutenant commanded torpedo boat, which was in the night of 1 on August 2, 1943 sunk by the Japanese army. During the attack, suffered a serious back injury, and had previously struggled with injuries that have inflicted upon American football. Other health problems JFK haunted all his life.

After the war he became involved in politics, he worked as a journalist in 1947 he became a congressman for the Democratic Party and five years later a senator. In 1960 the Democrats nominated a presidential candidate, and when the autumn of that year, defeated by Richard Nixon, he became the youngest elected president of the USA.

John F. Kennedy was very popular among Americans, and thanks to his charisma won sympathy abroad. He had, however, faces a number of thorny issues. Sympathy won a decisive stance during the Berlin crisis, while he read out was a failed military attempt to overthrow Castro's government in Cuba organized by the CIA. While Kennedy was in office for only three months. The most dramatic situation occurred in 1962, when the Soviet Union was going to deploy nuclear missiles in Cuba, which would be able to hit the east coast of the USA (Caribbean Crisis). The world was not far from the nuclear apocalypse. After a very tense negotiations with the Soviet chief representative Nikita Khrushchev reached Kennedy withdrawal of Soviet missiles from the island. In exchange for the Americans withdrew from the nuclear missiles near the Soviet border in Turkey and promised that they would not attack Cuba.

Kennedy's life ended two gunshot hits during his visit to Dallas on November 22, 1922. bomber was declared by investigators Lee Harvey Oswald, who was arrested shortly after the murder. Two days later, when transporting him to a prison shot the president admirer of Jack Ruby. Kennedy's assassination was, according to some critics satisfactorily explained and there are theories that challenge the official version. Speculation also prevail over the motive for the murder.