John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), regularly alluded to by his initials JFK, was an American legislator who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his death in November 1963. The Cuban Missile Crisis, The Bay of Pigs Invasion, the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, the foundation of the Peace Corps, improvements in the Space Race, the working of the Berlin Wall, the Trade Expansion Act to lower duties, the Civil Rights Movement, the "New Frontier" household project, and nullification of the government capital punishment in the District of Columbia all occurred amid his administration. Kennedy additionally stayed away from any critical increment in the American nearness in Vietnam, declining to submit battle troops and keeping the level of others, for the most part military counselors, to just 16,000, contrasted with the 536,000 troops conferred by his successor, Lyndon Johnson, by 1968.
Kennedy's opportunity in office is likewise set apart by high strains with Communist states, especially Cuba. An endeavor in April 1961 at the Bay of Pigs to oust the nation's despot, Fidel Castro, was defeated by military inside three days. His organization hence dismisses plans by the Joint Chiefs of Staff to coordinate false-hail assaults on American soil keeping in mind the end goal to increase open endorsement for a war against Cuba. In October 1962, it was found Soviet ballistic rockets had been conveyed in Cuba; the subsequent time of unease, frequently termed the Cuban Missile Crisis, is seen by numerous students of history as the nearest humankind has ever come to war including the utilization of atomic weapons on both or different sides.
After military administration in the United States Naval Reserve in World War II, Kennedy spoke to Massachusetts' eleventh congressional region in the U.S. Place of Representatives from 1947 to 1953 as a Democrat. From that point, he served in the U.S. Senate from that state from 1953 until 1960. Kennedy vanquished Vice President and Republican hopeful Richard Nixon in the 1960 U.S. Presidential Election. At age 43, he was the most youthful man to have been chosen to the workplace, the second-most youthful president (after Theodore Roosevelt, who was 42 when he got to be president after the death of William McKinley). Kennedy was the main individual conceived in the twentieth century to serve as president. To date, Kennedy has been the main Roman Catholic president and the main president to have won a Pulitzer Prize, for his history Profiles in Courage.
Kennedy was killed in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963. Lee Harvey Oswald was captured that evening and resolved to have discharged shots that hit the President from a 6th floor window of the Texas School Book Depository. Dallas dance club proprietor Jack Ruby mortally injured Oswald two days after the fact in a correctional facility hall. The FBI and the Warren Commission formally inferred that Oswald was the solitary professional killer, yet its report was forcefully scrutinized. The United States House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) concurred with the conclusion that Oswald discharged the shots that executed the president, additionally reasoned that Kennedy was presumably killed as the aftereffect of an intrigue. The greater part of Americans alive at the season of the death accept both that there was a trick and that Oswald was by all account not the only shooter.
Since the 1960s, data concerning Kennedy's private life has become visible. Subtle elements of Kennedy's wellbeing issues with which he battled have turned out to be better known, particularly since the 1990s. Albeit at first kept mystery from the overall population, reports of Kennedy being unfaithful in marriage have earned press. Kennedy positions exceptionally in students of history's surveys of U.S. presidents.
