John Fitzgerald Kennedy was a very important president not only because he was assassinated, but because he did many important things like being awarded navy and marine corps medal during world war 2 for heroism he stopped the Cuban missile crisis when they threatened nuclear warfare on USA. He was also the youngest president ever and His death will not go unnoticed, he was an important man and when he died he had changed America and the world forever. JFK had not always been president, he had a childhood like you and me, but his childhood definitely shaped him into becoming a spectacular president and a good leader one thing was he was relatively well know before presidency his parents were rich his uncle was mayor of the town and he new some law. would be when he was young, he visited the courthouse and spent a day there with his uncle and learned a lot of law and skills he said his uncle really helped him become a good president.…show more content… William Bodde, Jr. wrote Jack Kennedy (people also called him jack)was assassinated while we were in Vienna and there was a tremendous outpouring of grief and sympathy The huge church was packed. I sat next to the Nobel Prize author John Steinbeck. He wept throughout the ceremony. as you can see even Nobel prize winners and other countries and important people from other countries missed