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[[Image:John_kennedy.jpg|right|thumb|John F. Kennedy]]
 
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'''John Fitzgerald Kennedy''' '''(May 29, 1917 - November 22, 1963)''' was the 35<sup>th</sup> [[American]] president.  He died in 1963 when he was shot by [[Lee Harvey Oswald]]. He authorized the de-segregation of Federal housing and proposed the civil rights bill, passed after his assassination. He successfully faced down the [[Soviet Union]]'s plans to station nuclear missiles in [[Cuba]] and faced down a number of hawks in his own administration during that [[Cuban Missile Crisis|crisis]]. He also pledged the USA to put a man on the moon before the end of the 1960s.  
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'''John Fitzgerald Kennedy''' '''(May 29, 1917 - November 22, 1963)''' was the 35<sup>th</sup> [[American]] president.  He died in 1963 when he was shot by [[Lee Harvey Oswald]]. He authorized the de-segregation of Federal housing and proposed the civil rights bill, passed after his assassination. He was responsible for the Bay of Pigs fiasco.  He successfully faced down the [[Soviet Union]]'s plans to station nuclear missiles in [[Cuba]] and faced down a number of hawks in his own administration during that [[Cuban Missile Crisis|crisis]]. He also pledged the USA to put a man on the moon before the end of the 1960s, a pledge that was later fulfilled after his death.  A notorious womanizer while he lived, news of this was generally suppressed until well after his death.  
    
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