John F. Kennedy was the 35th president and was assassinated in Dallas on November 22, 1963. Kennedy only served as president for 2 years before he died and was the 4th president to be assassinated. His assassin was Lee Harvey Oswald. Just 2 days later Oswald was killed by Jack Ruby at the Dallas City jail. Kennedy was a democrat and the first Roman Catholic president. Kennedy also was instrumental in the creation of the Peace Corps in 1961, this same year Alan Shepard became the first American in space. This was one of Kennedy’s defining moments in his presidency. In 1969 the Apollo 11 successfully landed on the moon. At the end of World War 2 nuclear weapons became a persistent aspect of warfare and the nuclear arms race encouraged the development