I am John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to by my initials JFK, I was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. I was the youngest person to assume the presidency by election and the youngest president at the end of my tenure. I served at the height of the Cold War, and the majority of his foreign policy concerned relations with the Soviet Union and Cuba.