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35th President of the United States; established the Peace Corps, Space Race, and partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty; ordered the Bay of Pigs invasion and response to the Cuban Missile Crisis; assassinated (1917-1963)- His name was John F. Kennedy.Homer Hickam -- October Sky
- First he rang Federal Judge Woodrow Seals, a feisty old guy who had been appointed by President John F. Kennedy.Li Cunxin -- Mao's Last Dancer
- John Kennedy was a so-and-so—John Steinbeck -- Travels with Charley
- John Kennedy's genius, he'd read somewhere, was that he worked out one problem at a time.John Gardner -- The Sunlight Dialogues
- , who had been a childhood sweetheart of John F. Kennedy in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts.Kurt Vonnegut -- Slaughterhouse-Five
- He loved the freedom to follow his passions: for John F. Kennedy, for Fred Astaire, for Ted Williams.Jay Allison, et al. -- This I Believe
- It reminded me of the eternal flame they'd put on John F. Kennedy's grave that will never go out no matter what.Sue Monk Kidd -- The Secret Life of Bees
- In the place of honor hung a picture showing, side by side with his own face, the smiling face of John F. Kennedy.Milan Kundera -- The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- Outside of scores of confirmed hits, many think he was the puff of smoke on the grassy knoll in Dallas, the true killer of John Kennedy.Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Ultimatum
- It was the school John F. Kennedy attended as a child.Wes Moore -- The Other Wes Moore
- I was as sure of Them as I was of other people I had never met but had heard of, like my grandfather Charlie Bundrum, or John Kennedy, or Alan Ladd.Rick Bragg -- All Over but the Shoutin'
- It avoids what linguists call the intrusive "r," pronouncing saw as sawr or, as John Kennedy did, Cuba as Cuber.Robert MacNeil and William Crane -- Do You Speak American?
- With Alice beside me, I slowly cruised through Golden Gate Park on John F. Kennedy Drive.Dave Peizer -- A Man Named Dave
- "John F. Kennedy," he said.Pat Conroy -- The Water is Wide
- We'd never been to Dallas before, and the next day, we decided to visit the John F. Kennedy memorial, as part of our "Highlights of Texas" tour.James Patterson -- Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports
- She was lighting the pilot light in the oven when they announced John F. Kennedy was dead, and she sat right down on the kitchen floor and cried.Kaye Gibbons -- My Mother, Literature, and a Life Split Neatly into Two Halves
- Surely, John F. Kennedy (who was six feet tall according to his biography, my height exactly) did not have to squat at his boarding school.John Green -- Looking for Alaska
- Do you, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, do solemnly swear ....Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Kennedy
- John F. Kennedy began his public service career as a PT-boat commander in the South Pacific in World War II.John F. Kennedy -- Profiles in Courage
- A half-dozen oils, one of them a portrait of the ship's namesake, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, dotted the other walls, themselves covered with expensive-looking paneling.Tom Clancy -- The Hunt for Red October
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