Famous trauma victims John F. Kennedy

摘要

John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963), popularly known as JFK, was the 35th President of The United States of America, and the fourth to be assassinated. He was also the youngest elected to the office, and the first Roman Catholic. He will be best remembered for the controversy surrounding his assassination, and the various conspiracy theories which have surrounded him since. This limited vision, however, does a grave disservice to his memory. JFK was a truly inspirational public speaker, although he was robbed of the chance to fully enact his vision. His speeches, and his untimely death have led him to be enshrined in the pantheon of great US presidents, thought of in the same league as Lincoln, Washington and Roosevelt. He was responsible for escalating the Space Race and for starting the programme to land a man on the moon. He faced down Nikita Khrushchev over the deployment of Soviet ballistic missiles in Cuba, and deployed troops to forcibly desegregate schools. His colourful private life and his membership of the Kennedy dynasty, arguably the closest thing America has to an aristocracy, mean that he will be remembered for more than his political achievements.