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John F. Kennedy: Quartz Character

John F. Kennedy (1917 to 1963), often called JFK, was the 35th president of the United States. At age 43 he became the youngest man ever elected president, and he set the goal of landing a person on the Moon before 1970. He was assassinated in Dallas on November 22, 1963.

Cost
8 crystals
Type
Character · Founder
Power / Health
6 / 5
Color
Quartz (Founders & Revolution)
Rarity
Rare
Set
Liberty & Lightning (Set 1)

On play: draw 2. Refresh your characters.

Charismatic cold warrior whose brief presidency inspired a generation before ending in national tragedy.

Real history

The real history

John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born on May 29, 1917, in Brookline, Massachusetts, the first president born in the 20th century. As a Harvard student he wrote a senior essay on Britain's lack of military preparation that was published as the bestselling book Why England Slept.

In World War II he commanded a PT boat in the Pacific. In August 1943 a Japanese destroyer sank his boat, PT-109, and Kennedy led the survivors to safety, towing an injured crewmate. He received the Navy and Marine Corps Medal and the Purple Heart.

He won a seat in Congress in 1946, served three terms in the House, and was elected to the Senate in 1952. He married Jacqueline Bouvier in 1953, and his book Profiles in Courage won the Pulitzer Prize in 1957. In 1960 he defeated Richard Nixon to become, at age 43, the youngest man elected president.

As president he created the Peace Corps, and in 1962 he led the United States through the Cuban Missile Crisis, which ended when the Soviets agreed to remove their nuclear missiles from Cuba. On May 25, 1961, he asked Congress to commit to landing an American on the Moon, and on September 12, 1962, he repeated the goal in a speech to about 40,000 people at Rice University in Houston. Apollo 11 achieved it in July 1969. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas.

Sources

  1. John F. Kennedy, Biography, National Archives, Presidential Libraries
  2. John F. Kennedy, Life Before the Presidency, Miller Center, University of Virginia
  3. 60 Years Ago, President Kennedy Reaffirms Moon Landing Goal in Rice University Speech, NASA

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Game lore (invented)

In the game's story

In the game's invented story, Kennedy arrives in Marginalia and meets Neil Armstrong in the Archive's observatory, where he asks one question, what it was like, and then listens for three hours. He sets his sights on the high rift in the sky that Armstrong discovered, and a speech to the Folio Council about choosing hard goals wins funding for an expedition, something the Bridgecrew has never voted for before. On weekends he sails a small borrowed boat on the Inkwash.

In Lost Chapters' frame story, history's heroes fall into an invented world called Marginalia. That story is fiction; the history on this page is real.

How the card plays

John F. Kennedy costs 8 crystals and is a 6/5 Quartz Founder. On play, draw 2 cards and refresh your characters.

He is a late-game refill: two cards plus a refresh that readies your characters again after they have attacked. Time him for a turn when your field is already large, so the refresh matters. Because he is a Founder, he works well with Founder boosts. National Convention, National Convention, gives your Founders +1/+1 and makes them cost 1 less, which brings Kennedy down to 7 crystals. Washington, First President, Washington, First President, gives your other Founders +1/+1, and John Adams, John Adams, gives your Founders +1/+0. Hold up a counter or two in your hand with the cards he draws.

  • Playable in decks led by George Washington, and by any Traveler Leader whose colors include Quartz.
  • In the Washington starter deck (1 copy). Deck code: LC2-BhoCgAKBAYIBgwGEAYUBhgKHAYgBiQGKAYsBjAKNAY4BjwGQAZEBkgGTAZQBlQGWAZcBmAGZAZoCmwGcAZ0BngGfAaABoQFBjA
  • A deck holds up to 3 copies of this card.

Questions about John F. Kennedy

How old was JFK when he became president?

He was 43 when he was elected in 1960, which made him the youngest man ever elected president.

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