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John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. Kennedy defeated then Vice President and Republican candidate Richard Nixon in the 1960 U.S. presidential election. He was the youngest elected to the office, at the age of 43, and the first president to have been born in the 20th Century. Kennedy is the only Catholic and an Irish American president, and is the only president to have won a Pulitzer Prize. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas. Lee Harvey Oswald was charged with the crime but was shot and killed two days later by Jack Ruby before any trial . Today, Kennedy continues to rank highly in public opinion ratings of former U.S. president Events during his presidency included the (Bay of Pigs Invasion, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the building of the Berlin Wall, the Space Race, the African American Civil Rights Movement and early stages of the Vietnam War). David H. Donald, noted biographer of Lincoln, relates that when he met John F. Kennedy in 1962, Kennedy voiced his deep dissatisfaction and resentment with historians who had rated some of his predecessors. Kennedy said, No one has a right to grade a President—even poor James Buchanan—who has not sat in his chair, examined the mail and information that came across his desk, and learned why he made his decisions. Popular opinion ABC（American Broadcasting Company） poll An ABC News poll about presidential greatness, taken 16–20 February 2000, asked 1,012 adults in the US, Who do you think was the greatest American president? Abraham Lincoln (19%) John F. Kennedy (17%) Franklin Roosevelt (11%) No opinion (10%) Ronald Reagan (9%) George Washington (8%) Bill Clinton (7%) Theodore Roosevelt (4%) George H.W. Bush (4%) Thomas Jefferson (3%) Harry Truman (2%) Richard Nixon (2%) Jimmy Carter (1%) Dwight Eisenhower (1%) 肯尼迪家族 肯尼迪家族