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JOHN F. KENNEDY

1963 - 1917

John Kennedy was born in 1917 in Brooklyn, Massachusetts, and he assumed the presidency of the United States from January 20, 1961 to November 22, 1963, when he was assassinated in Dallas, Texas.

The author believes that the reason for placing John Kennedy with the hundred is that he was the person responsible for setting up the (Apollo) space program, because the arrival of man to the moon is one of the events that shook the world and whose mention will remain resonant for the next five thousand years.

Was JFK really worthy of the honor of that space flight? Shouldn't we acknowledge the thanks of Neil Armstrong or Edwin Aldrin, the two men who were the first to set foot on the moon? The answer is that if we were to rank these 100 according to fame, the virtue of those pilots would be the most important. But these two pilots are unknown men, and if an accident happened to them two months before they led (Apollo 2) to the moon, we would have seen a large number of orbiting astronauts replace them.

But the truth is that John Kennedy was responsible. The Apollo program to reach the moon, and he was the man who turned the Apollo project into effect and pledged that the United States would send a manned spaceship to the moon, although the American people were not very enthusiastic about this project, especially since it was a big expense. Therefore, it became clear that John Kennedy had the credit for this project, after he had obtained approval from Congress, and the implementation of the project was under his close supervision.

Some people think that the Apollo project is a trivial but huge act, but the trend in the United States now is to make July 20, 1969 (the day of man's landing on the moon) a national holiday, and we must not forget that although Columbus' discovery of America did not make it an official holiday However, all historians agree that that day was the dawn of a new era in the world, and our descendants will feel that Apollo's second trip to the moon was like Columbus' trip across the Atlantic Ocean, and that it was the beginning of a whole new era in human history.