John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy (Brookline, MA May 29, 1917 - Dallas, TX November 22, 1963), was the 35th President of the United States and was referred to as John F. Kennedy, Jack Kennedy by his friends and popularly known as JFK. He was serving from January 20th 1961 until his death in 1963.

Kennedy defeated Vice President and Republican candidate Richard Nixon in the 1960 U.S. presidential election. At 43 years of age, he was the youngest to have been elected to the office, the second-youngest President (after Theodore Roosevelt),  A Catholic, Kennedy was the only non-Protestant president, and was the only president to have won a Pulitzer Prize. Events during his presidency included 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, arrested that evening, was accused of the crime but was shot and killed by Jack Ruby two days later, before a trial could take place.