'''John Fitzgerald Kennedy''' 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. He is considered by many to be one of the greatest American Presidents. | '''John Fitzgerald Kennedy''' 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. He is considered by many to be one of the greatest American Presidents. |