John F. Kennedy

35th President of the United States

Served from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963.

• John did not pass the medical exams required to enlist in the Army or the Navy. He later used his father's connections to enter the service and emerged a war hero.
• JFK won the Pulitzer Prize for his book "Profiles in Courage".
• He proposed a joint U.S./Soviet mission to the moon in 1963 due to high expectations on space travel developments.