On November 22, 1963, while being driven through the streets of Dallas, Texas, in his convertible, Lee Harvey Oswald shot and killed President John F. Kennedy. The world had lost more than a common man; it lost a great leader. According to JFK, Life and Legacy, "He proved great leadership from his heroic actions in World War II to making the decisions to avoid possible nuclear conflict with world powers during his presidency." Because of his birth into the well-respected Kennedy family much was to be expected of him.
Kennedy was born on May 29,1917 in Brookline, Massachusetts. …
