John
Fitzgerald Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963 as the 35th
President of the United States. This was
a tragic loss not only for America but the world. Kennedy had done extraordinary things with
foreign and domestic policy. He led
America through one of the worst times in the nation’s history, the Cold War. During the Cold War, we were on the brink of a
nuclear wear with the Soviet Union and our nation’s leader led us through the
war without the massive loss of life that a nuclear war would have
entailed. The Cuban Missile Crisis was a
very serious time in our nation’s history and even the leader of Cuba, Fidel
Castro, commented that the assassination of JFK was “bad news.[1]”
Kennedy
also did great things on the American home front as he pushed for civil
liberties, civil rights, and other controversial issues such as the death
penalty. He was an American hero who was
striving to make this country the greatest place possible and the fact the he
was struck down before he finished his dream is a sad thing. The fact that one of his “enemies” said that
his death was nothing but bad news shows testament to the fact that he was a
great mean who was striving for peace and the strengthening of our nation.
Here is a video of the assassination:
[1]Oliver Stone, and Peter Kuznick, The Untold History of the United States, (New York: Gallery Books, 2012), 325.
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