Was John F. Kennedy a member of the Council on Foreign Relations?
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No.  U.S. president members of the CFR have included Richard M. Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush, and Bill Clinton.
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Yes, Wilson was a Democrat. And so was Polk (Mexican-American War). So FDR, Truman, Johnson, Wilson, and Polk. That's 5. unless I missed someone...\n\nOh, and as for Republicans: Lincoln, McKinley, Eisenhower, Nixon, Bush 1 and Bush 2. So that's 6.\n\nEDIT: Kennedy never presided over wartime. There were conflicts in Cuba and Vietnam, but it really could not be called wartime prior to real engagement after the Gulf of Tonkin in 1964. Similarly, there were conflicts, even bombing, in Iraq during Clinton's administration, but we wouldn't call him a wartime president. So I'd still say it's 5 and 6.
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According to the Warren Commission, Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated John F. Kennedy.  Unless there is proof someone else committed the crime, Oswald is the most likely suspect to have assassinated Kennedy.
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Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973), often referred to as LBJ, was the 36th President of the United States (1963–1969). After serving a long career in the U.S. Congress, Johnson became the thirty-seventh Vice President; in 1963, he succeeded to the presidency following President John F. Kennedy's assassination. He was a major leader of the Democratic Party and as President was responsible for the passage of key civil rights legislation and Medicare, a major "War on Poverty", as well as the acceleration of the war in Vietnam. He was elected in a landslide in 1964 but his reelection bid in 1968 collapsed as his party fell apart, and he announced that he would not seek re-election.
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John F. Kennedy was getting ready to lessen the power of the CIA and had fired top CIA man Dulles.  The CIA and the Mafia worked together on a plan to assassinate Castro during the Bay of Pigs invasion that Kennedy agreed to.  President Kennedy did not provide Air defense protection for the guerilla fighters who were ambushed by Castros guerillas.  This upset both the mob and the CIA.  The mob was already mad because brother Robert was coming down hard on them.  Also JFK was planning on letting LBJ go in 64 and LBJ knew that his political career would have been over.  Also a lot of top leaders were upset at Kennedy's plan to get out of Vietnam.  In other words Kennedy had a lot of people against him that I believed conspired together to assassinate him.  I believe that a lot of people were involved in the conspiracy  but the CIA and mob worked together on how it was carried out.  I believe there were at least 3 snipers firing from front and back.  If you watch the Zapruder film closely it appears as if the limo driver and special agent Greer is doing something with his hands in the front seat looks back once turns around and looks back again and fires the fatal shot.  I have been told that he did it using a famous CIA ice bullet.  Big cover up and the first Crime of the Century.
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kennedy, johnson, nixon
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You need to re-state your question to get a reasonable answer.\n\nTo date the office of President has been occupied by white male, Anglo-Saxon, Protestants, except for JFK, all of whom were considered "majority," so there is no good answer to the question as asked.
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He was charismatic, but he wasn't a great president.\n\nHis unplanned remarks to Nikita Khruschev, President of the Soviet Union, caused Khruschev to judge Kennedy to be weak.  Consequently, he installed nuclear missles in Cuba.  Kennedy reacted by blockading Cuba.  For several days in October 1963, the world was on the brink of a nuclear war.\n\nShortly after taking office, he allowed plans for an invasion of Cuba to proceed.  The invasion by Cuban refugees from Miami was a debacle that was a violation of international law and a humiliation to the United States.\n\nHe continued the program of sending military advisors to Viet Nam.  After his death, this was continued by President Lyndon Johnson and expanded into the Viet Nam war.  The Viet Nam war destroyed Johnson's presidency.\n\nTo his great credit, he was aggressive about furthering the Civil Rights movement by supporting activists with Federal authority in several high profile integration efforts.\n\nIf he had lived, almost surely he would have been elected to a second term.  He seemed to grow wiser while in office.  Would that wisdom have led him to become a great president?  Would the US have become bogged down in an unwinnable war in Viet Nam?  Would his philandering have brought him down?\n\nInteresting questions.\n\nWikipedia knows all.\n\nI was 10 when he was elected and 13 when he was assassinated.  I will never forget the optimism he brought to the country.  We believed he could lead us into the bright future.  I will never forget the terror of the Cuban Missle Crisis.  I will never forget the devastation I felt when he was assassinated.  The United States has not been the same since.  John Kennedy was the last president who _lead_ us.  Presidents after him have been followers without vision.\n\nIn 1989 (I was 39), I went to President Kennedy's grave in Arlington Cemetary.  Probably 15 or 20 people were there.  I was amazed that people were moved to silence, even those obviously born after his presidency.  I felt a great deal of reverence and had tears in my eyes.
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The assassination of President John F Kennedy.
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A the time that the President Kennedy became involved in the war, the United States believed in a "domino theory" where various nations would turn communist, creating more inertia and turning other nations communist until the world became a single communist state.  The nation was in a state of agitation due to the Cuban Missile crisis and Secretary of State McNamara and his people firmly believed that Viet-Nam would become part of a Chinese communist empire, eventually taking over all of Asia.  They operated in complete ignorance of the fact that the Vietnamese had been fighting the Chinese invaders for centuries and would never surrender to Chinese rule.  Even when President Johnson was aware that 80% of the country was against the United States, it became a matter of national pride not to leave.  \n\nFor further clarity I highly recommend the movie "Fog of War.”
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Watch the documentary "The Fog of War" about Robert McNamara who was in Kennedy and Johnson's cabinet.\n\nGives good perspective about that.\n\nU.S. didn't know the enemy well and Johnson was stubborn.\n\nSeems similar to Iraq and Afganistan.
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I don't think that JFK Jr. was responsible for his wife and sister-in-law's deaths. He was a pilot, and I don't think he was necessarily engaging in 'reckless behavior.' \n\nYou said KENNEDY, while related, Skakel doesn't really qualify. Another one that you could have named is Marilyn Monroe, but I think it is a little far-fetched too.\n\nThe Kennedy family is HUGE. If you have such a large family with a lot of money and power, bad things are GOING to happen.
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president kennedy to bush:\n\n"Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country"\n\nRESIGN
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Here is one:\nhttp://www.sparknotes.com/biography/jfk/timeline.html
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Kudo's for some good work, although I doubt that many liberals will buy into these facts.  I would like to take issue with one area of contention and that is the Viet Nam war.  It is true that JFK sent in advisors to contain the communists, but it was the old hawk Lydon Baines Johnson that escalated the war and sent in troops.  I believe that Viet Nam was Johnson's war.  After he lost the stomach to continue, when he had Charlie on his knees following the Tet offensive, the old fool announced that he was hanging up his spurs.  Johnson too, was a democrat and a shameless coward.  The loss of that war should  be credited solely to LBJ.
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John F Kennedy.  This was a pretty tense moment in our history.  I remember my folks being real worried and sitting in front of the TV almost non-stop watching news bulletins during the time.  I was real young so I didn't know what was going on.  JFK told Kruschev that if the Soviet missiles weren't removed from Cuba their presence in Cuba would be considered an act of war on the United States by the Soviet Union.  Scary stuff.\n\nA good book to read on the Cuban Missile Crisis is 'Thirteen Days' by Robert F Kennedy.
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On February 10, 1961, photographer George Tames was allowed to spend the entire working day with the recently inaugurated Kennedy, and the best of the resulting pictures became a visual essay in the New York Times Magazine, titled "A Day in the Life of John F. Kennedy." Among the images included was this picture taken in the White House Oval Office a little after 5:00 p.m., showing Kennedy poring over a newspaper. The standing position was typical of Kennedy who frequently felt the need to rise from his chair to ease his chronic back pain.\n\nKennedy had a shrewd sense for which imagery worked best with the public. Thus, when Tames let him preview the picture essay's final layout, he recognized immediately that this faceless, shadowed portrait with its sense of quiet isolation conveyed the gravity of the presidency in a way that few other pictures could. Upon spotting it in its relatively unfeatured position, he declared that this was the image that, above all others, should have been carried on the magazine's cover.