John F. Kennedy

"Do not pray for easy lives, my friends. Pray to be stronger men."

- Kennedy in "Five".

John F. Kennedy (Abbreviated JFK, callsign "Lancer"), was the 35th president of the United States of America from 1961 until his assassination in 1963, and a character in Call of Duty: Black Ops. In the mission U.S.D.D., he speaks personally to Mason inside the Pentagon, and is a playable character in the Zombie map "Five". The username to log into the terminal is JFKENNEDY the password is LANCER. In Zombies, JFK's player indicator color is white (along with Tank Dempsey and Sarah Michelle Gellar).

Trivia

 * President Kennedy is one of the highest-ranking characters in the entire Call of Duty series.
 * Kennedy and Yasir Al-Fulani are the two highest ranking playable characters in the entire Call of Duty series.
 * He is the second playable character who is a President - the first one is Al-Fulani.
 * He is the first American president to have an actual appearance in the Call of Duty series.
 * In the cutscene preceding "Five", Kennedy says the word "Zombies" rather casually in response to the attack. This could imply that he already knows about the Zombies.
 * According to the President Kennedy's mail account on the Central Intelligence Agency Data system, Evelyn Cross and John Trent have sent emails to him respectively, warning President Kennedy to "play along" or else.
 * Evelyn Cross's letter, dated June 26, 1963, told Kennedy to "reconsider" an unknown final offer from a certain individual. She insisted Kennedy to take the offer "before it's too late."
 * John Trent's letter, dated November 21, 1963, one day before the Kennedy assassination, was a "last warning" about an unknown event, which likely had something to do with his assassination.
 * Kennedy appears in a small Easter Egg in "Ascension".