KENNEDY, JOHN F.

born May 29, 1917, Brookline, Mass., U.S. died Nov. 22, 1963, Dallas, Texas John F. Kennedy. in full John Fitzgerald Kennedy 35th president of the United States (196163), who faced a number of foreign crises, especially in Cuba and Berlin, but managed to secure such achievements as the Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty and the Alliance for Progress. He was assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas. William Manchester The Editors of the Encyclopdia Britannica