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| | Kennedy, John Fitzgerald on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) |
 | | KENNEDY, JOHN FITZGERALD [Kennedy, John Fitzgerald] 1917-63, 35th President of the United States (1961-63), b. |
 | | Kennedy won much praise for his stance in the crisis, but some have criticized him for what they held to be unnecessary "brinkmanship." In Aug., 1963, tension with the USSR was eased by conclusion of a treaty that prohibited the atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons. |
 | | On Nov. 22, 1963, President Kennedy was shot and killed while riding in a motorcade in Dallas, Tex. The Warren Commission, appointed by his successor Lyndon Johnson to investigate the murder, eventually concluded that it was the work of a single assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald. |
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