Throughout the twentieth century, there have been vigorous leaders and inauspicious leaders. One of the greatest leaders was John Fitzgerald Kennedy of the United States of America. John Fitzgerald Kennedy very prosperous leader was his speeches that he gave to the American people and the world trying to make the world a much higher quality place to live. He also asked the American people: “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born on May 29, 1917 in Brookline, Massachusetts. He was born into a very wealthy family, the Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys, both of whom were prominent Irish Catholic families. JFK was the second oldest of 9 siblings, all amazing siblings, and from Eunice Kennedy founding the Special Olympics, Robert Kennedy as Attorney General of the United States, and Ted Kennedy was one of the most persuasive senators in American history. But apart from the fact that they were all important to the government, they remained united and supported each other throughout their joint life. JFK attended an all-boys Catholic boarding school in New Milford, Connecticut, called Canterbury, where he excelled in English and history but nearly failed Latin, which he wasn't interested in. After he got out of Canterbury he went to Choate, which is an exclusive preparatory school in Connecticut. After graduating from Choate and attending Princeton University for one semester, Kennedy transferred to Harvard University in 1936. While there he was proving to be an average student due to his interest in sports and women. He was also very popular among his classmates at Harvard. As he grew up he began to take his studies seriously and make his own plate... middle of paper... President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald, a former Marine with Soviet sympathies. he fired at the car, hitting the president twice, once in the neck and once in the back of the head. JFK was pronounced dead at Parkland Memorial Hospital shortly after being shot 2 times in the lower neck and upper skull. Then, two days after JFK's assassination, Lee Harvey Oswald was assassinated by Jack Ruby, a Dallas nightclub owner. “To the American public, as well as to its early historians, John F. Kennedy is a hero and was a visionary politician who, but for his premature death, may have avoided the political and social turmoil of the late 1960s” . After John F. Kennedy's burial, his wife Jackie Kennedy said, "There will be great presidents again, and the Johnsons are wonderful, they've been wonderful to me, but there will never be another Camelot again"..”