JFK

John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963.After serving the military as commander of the Motor Torpedo Boats PT-109 and PT-59 during World War II in the South Pacific, Kennedy represented Massachusetts's 11th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from the time of 1947 to 1953 as a Democrat. Afterwards, he served in the U.S. Senate from 1953 until 1960. Kennedy defeated then Vice President and Republican candidate Richard Nixon in the1960 U.S. presidential election. He was the youngest elected to the office, being at the age of 43, the second-youngest President after Theodore Roosevelt, and the first president to have been born in the 20th century. Kennedy is the only Catholic president, and is the only president to have won a Pulitzer Prize.Significant Events that happened during his presidency include the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the building of the Berlin Wall, the Space Race, the African American Civil Rights Movement and early stages of the Vietnam War.Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas. Lee Harvey Oswald was charged with the crime,though was shot and killed two days later by Jack Ruby before the trial could take place. The FBI, the Warren Commission, and the House Select Committee on Assassinations concluded that Oswald was the lone assassin, with the HSCA allowing for the possibility of conspiracy based on acoustic evidence. Today, Kennedy continues to rank highly in public opinion ratings of former U.S. presidents.