John F. Kennedy

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

- JFK in "Five".

John F. Kennedy (Abbreviated JFK, callsign "Lancer"), is a former president of the United States, 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 Nazi Zombies 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 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, John F. Kennedy says the word "Zombies" rather casually in response to the attack. This implies 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 26/6/1963, told Kennedy to "reconsider" the final offer from a certain individual. She insisted Kennedy to take the offer "before it's too late."
 * John Trent's letter dated 21/11/1963, one day before the Kennedy assassination, as a "last warning".
 * Kennedy seems to prefer SMGs.
 * In "Five", Kennedy naturally has a rivalry with Castro, and they often exchange insults at each other.
 * He is friendly with Robert McNamara and neutral with Richard Nixon.
 * Kennedy appears in an Easter Egg in Ascension.