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).

Both Jim Meskimen and Chriss Anglin provide the voice of John F. Kennedy.

Quotes
"Agent Mason. Sit. We are in grave danger from the communists. Our freedom... Our very way of life is at risk. Dragovich. I'm told you are the very best that we have. Anywhere. - You will need to be. - Mr. Mason, take care of it."

- When meeting with Mason during U.S.D.D.

"For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who only look to the past or the present are certain to miss the future. I said 'are certain to miss the future.'"

- During the "Five" cutscene

"As I always say, forgive your enemies, but remember their names."

- During the "Five" cutscene.

"Zombies... Gentlemen, at times like these our capacity to retaliate must be and has to be massive, to deter all forms of aggression."

- During the "Five" cutscene.

Trivia

 * President Kennedy is the highest-ranking character in the entire Call of Duty series.
 * Kennedy makes a lot of future references like "They should put my face on the silver dollar!", even though he is, in fact, on the Silver Dollar coin. He was added after his assassination in 1963.
 * 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 may imply that he has already had previous encounters with the undead or 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".
 * John Trent or Evelyn Cross had nothing to do with the assassination, as in a cutscene in Revelations, Dragovich, Kravchenko and Steiner were doing something to Mason, possibly programming him to translate the numbers and even to make him kill Kennedy.
 * Kennedy seems to prefer SMGs. Because when the player buys an MPL off the wall he will say "I like this a lot."
 * When playing Zombies all players are unable to shot or knife the player that is President Kennedy
 * In the loading screen of Five, Kennedy is holding a China Lake.
 * In Five, Kennedy naturally has a rivalry with Castro (much like the one between their "counterparts" Dempsey and Richtofen), and they often exchange insults at each other.