JOHN F KENNEDY One of the influential Kennedy family and son of Joseph Kennedy, former US Ambassador to the UK, Kennedy became Democratic President of the USA.He was instrumental in heading of the Cuban missile crisis and was at the time very popular with the people of America. He was assassinated in Dallas,Texas in 1962 by Lee Harvey Oswald and controversy still rages over the circumstances of his death. Since his death, other facts about Kennedy's social life are causing a revision of his once popular image.