Being the president of the United States is not only a challenging job but a dangerous job as well. Four American presidents have been assassinated and there have been numerous attempts to kill the president. But the assassination of former president John F. Kennedy has had the most impact. The assassination brought American citizen into a very sorrowful mood but it changed the way the president was protected and it brought on conspiracy theories of how he was killed . The JFK assassination was a very important moment in American history because a whole nation came together to mourn the loss of great leader. On November 22nd 1963, while riding in a drop top vehicle, President John F. Kennedy was shot while riding in a motorcade in downtown Dallas, Texas. “The country looked as if it had lost one of its own family members”(Appleton, Sheldon). Americans were practically frozen in time, for a moment, to mourn the assassination of President Kennedy. People remember where they were when Kennedy was assassinated because most people during that time had never experienced hearing the news that a President was assassinated. People wondered how the President could be harmed, let alone die at such a young age. My grandmother who lived and worked as an assistant buyer for Sears Roebuck at the time of JFK’s assassination talked about that fateful day. She said, “The assassination occurred around lunch time. Many of my co-workers returned to their desks with sad red eyes, long faces and tears streaming down. People were overcome with grief. Televisions,which were pretty rare back in the 1960’s, showed a visual of people’s reactions and disbelief of the assassination.” Many people were just shocked by even hearing a president being shot. Most people loved the President because of his charisma and oratorical skills. Some people loved him because he was the first Roman Catholic president ever in the United States. ( jfklibrary.org). But he mostly captured the people’s hearts because he served in the Navy on a P