Today we got started right away with Kennedy's Assassination. He went down to Texas to solve a problem with two Democrats. He got shot on Elm Street on the Dealey Plaza. President Lyndon Johnson is sworn as president right away. Jackie Kennedy was there. Lee Harvey Oswald was the guy who shot and killed President Kennedy. He says he didn't do it, but all evidence points to him. Oswald was killed days before his trial by Jack Ruby. Ruby had mafia ties. He was friends with cops. He said he killed Oswald because he didn't want Jackie Kennedy to come back to Dallas and face the man who killed her wife. He was sent to jail and later died there.
Earl Warren said that Lee Oswald acted alone.
Richard Nixon was also accused of killing JFK. Because of the election. He acted weird.
The JFK Act
- Congress passed the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collections Act was passed in 1992.
There were a lot of coincidences between JFK's assassination and Abraham Lincoln's assassination.
President Lyndon Johnson - 36th President.
We watched a pretty creepy video of a compaign ad for Johnson back then.
Johnson did a lot of great things.
Such as:
- Put together the Warren Commission to investigate the JFK assissination
- Passed Civil Rights Act of 1964, which outlawed most forms of racial segregation.
- Passed Voting Rights Act of 1965 which outlawed discrimination in voting. Allowing millions of southern blacks to vote for the first time.
- Started affirmative action laws. Laws business and colleges to accept blacks.
- Passed Immigration Act of 1965 which allowed more non-European people to immigrate to US. Immigration doubled between 1965-1970.
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