JFK: Thank You!

America mourns 50 yeara of the tragic shooting of the 36th President of The United States.

I wasn't born around the time John F. Kennedy was the President of The United States, but from what I've heard from many, he was probably one the best modern day presidents, ever!

A young vibrant clean smiling guy with a beautiful wife and two adorable children.

November 22, 1963 would be the day the world lost a leader.

When he was in Dallas, Texas, Kennedy was shot in the head by a sniper rifle and was pronounced dead at the hospital.

It lead to the nation's first ever breaking news event. It also thrust his Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson into the forefront as the next in line.

During the 1960s in the South, the United States was going through the segregation of race.

The Civil Rights Movement was at its peak when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his March On Washington (I Have A Dream) speech to a crowd of thousands.

Dr. King, John Lewis and John F. Kennedy. Lewis would later become a U.S. Congressman.

That April, Dr. King got an opportunity to meet Kennedy.

I want to say that Kennedy was the best progressive leader.

Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas. Lee Harvey Oswald was accused of the crime and arrested that evening, but Jack Ruby shot and killed him two days later, before a trial could take place.

The FBI and the Warren Commission officially concluded that Oswald was the lone assassin. However, the United States House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) concluded that those investigations were flawed and that Kennedy was probably assassinated as the result of a conspiracy.

President Barack Obama along with former president Bill Clinton at the Kennedy memorial. Also former First Lady/Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and First Lady Michelle Obama.

Since the 1960s, information concerning Kennedy's private life has come to light. Details of Kennedy's health problems with which he struggled have become better known, especially since the 1990s. Although initially kept secret from the general public, reports of Kennedy's philandering have garnered much press. Kennedy ranks highly in public opinion ratings of U.S. presidents.

Events during his presidency included the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Space Race—by initiating Project Apollo (which would culminate in the moon landing), the building of the Berlin Wall, the African-American Civil Rights Movement, and early stages of the Vietnam War. Therein, Kennedy increased the number of military advisers, special operation forces, and helicopters in an effort to curb the spread of communism in South East Asia.

The Kennedy administration adopted the policy of the Strategic Hamlet Program which was implemented by the South Vietnamese government. It involved certain forced relocation, village internment, and segregation of rural South Vietnamese from northern and southern communist insurgents.