John F Kennedy, 35th President of the United States, was assassinated, 22 November 1963.

THAT WAS THE PRESIDENT
It's not only for the leader that the sorrow hits so hard
There are greater things I'll never understand
How a man so filled with life, even death was caught off guard.
That was the president and that was the man.

That Was the President, by Phil Ochs. Recording here.

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