American Political Ideals. page 1 of 3. American political culture contains a number of core ideals and values. Not all Americans share the same views, of course, but the vast majority subscribes to these general ideals, including liberty, equality, democracy, individualism, unity, and diversity.
For the assassination of his brother, Robert, see Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. On November 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was fatally shot in Dallas, Texas while riding in a motorcade in Dallas' Dealey Plaza, at 12:30 p.m. Central Standard Time.
Probably the most famous on-screen murder of them all, the 35th President of the United States of America, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assassinated in 1963 in Dallas, by Lee Harvey Oswald, a 24-year-old former Marine who defected to the Soviet Union.