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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. | + | '''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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John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 - November 22, 1963) was the 35th 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 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.