that legislation was passed after his death and signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson. Civil rights leaders meet with President John F. Kennedy in the oval office of the White House after ...

President John F. Kennedy was shot and killed by an assassin while riding through the streets of Dallas, Texas in an open motorcade. A little more than two hours later Lyndon Johnson recited the ...

The 1960s were a time of social unrest and a constant fight for equality. One president emerged as a pivotal figure in the ...

Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson assumed the presidency after the assassination of President John Kennedy in November 1963. Johnson declared a “war on poverty” in his 1964 election campaign, ...

Here’s a look at the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963.TimelineNovember 22, 1963- ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 23 (Reuters) - When U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson took the ... itself built on one signed by Johnson's predecessor John F. Kennedy in March 1961, which asked government ...

"A Great Society" for the American people and their fellow men elsewhere was the vision of Lyndon B. Johnson ... In the 1960 campaign, Johnson, as John F. Kennedy's running mate, was elected Vice ...

Jacqueline Kennedy, Texas Governor John B. Connally Jr. and his wife, Idanell Connally. Vice President Lyndon Johnson and his wife, Lady Bird Johnson, arrive in a separate plane. It is a campaign ...