The Inner Struggle

Even before my presidency, I had struggled from the age of thirteen. I had severe abdominal pain, and was soon taken to the Mayo Clinic, where I was diagnosed with colitis. By 1940, the pain surely increased, until it turned into a severe back pain, it felt as if knives were constantly poking and teasing my back muscles and spine. A few years later, I was finally diagnosed with Addison's disease. I had many back operations and chiropractic visits regularly, to keep the pain and disease from killing me. This is a disease that would eventually claim my life, had I not been assassinated.

Another struggle I faced, was the mental stress of having to deal with the Cuban missile crisis, in 1962, during the Cold War. . I, as the president, was faced with the action of trying to remove Russian missiles from Cuba. I had to do this in a way where neither the Russians (Then the Soviet Union) nor' the Cubans, for this could lead to enemies and nuclear warfare. Two weeks into Cuba's progress of creating the missile bases, I and our country made an agreement with Russia to remove the missiles from Cuba, shortly after navigating our way to remove the Jupiter missiles from Turkey. This was the closest our country has ever been t having a nuclear war.

On November 22nd, 1963, while riding through Dallas Texas in my motorcade, I was shot once in the head, putting my life to an end. The Us HSCA investigated this assassination for months, and finally came to the conclusion that the assassin who shot me was a man named Lee Harvey Oswald. Although this man was accused of killing me, he himself was assassinated a short time before his trial. It was taken in an American poll that 80% of Americans believed contrary to the man accused, and everyone had their own story to tell, of their own suspicions and accusations. This is still a worldwide debate that will most likely going on for decades more.

All in all, I was the youngest president elected, and the youngest to die. There are many memorials in my name and monuments to remember me by. Although many Americans disapprove of my work as president, I still fall high in the presidential ranks, for I believed what I did for the country was the smartest and most educated decisions made at the time. Sure, I was confused and obligated with other business, such as my disease and sickness, although I, like every other man, am human, with a mind of a human. My name is John Fitzgerald Kennedy, and I was the 35th president of the United States of America.
By Pierce Arnold