JFK
Kennedy was riding in his motorcade in Dallas, Texas to settle a dispute between his fellow Democrats who were fighting with each other. This was to make sure the fight didn't affect his next election in 1964
- Lee Harvey Oswald was a sharp shooter from the US Marines
- Oswald was interested in communism and even lived in the Soviet Union for a couple years
- He shot Kennedy in the head from the Texas School House Depository building
- He left, went home and changed his clothes, and is questioned by police officer JD Tippet and shoots him
- Oswald was captured at a movie theatre and arrested
- Kennedy was taken to the hospital and died there
- Kennedy's vice-president Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in to office on board of Air Force One
- Before Oswald could be tried in court for his crimes, Jack Ruby shot and killed him
- To this day it is not known exactly what happened that day as many people believe in conspiracy theories such as the mafia or a second gunman
- According to the Warren Reports however, Oswald acted alone and killed the president
- Congress passed the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collecton Act of 1992 which mandated the gathering and opening of all records of the assassination of President Kennedy
President Lyndon B. Johnson:
- Johnson won the election against Berry Goldwater
- There was a major flip-flop in the electoral college votes as the Democrats won all the states except for the south
- This is due to Johnson's passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which gave all the rights to African Americans that they should have had a hundred years ago
- Johnson's Presidential Accomplishments:
- Put together the Warren Commission to investigate the JFK assassination
- Passed Civil Rights Act of 1964 which outlawed most forms of racial segregation
- Passed Voting Rights Act of 1965 which outlawed discrimination iin voting thus allowing millions of African Americans to vote for the first time
- Started affirmative action laws which required businesses and colleges to hire and accept African Americans and other minorities
- Passed Immigration Act of 1965 which allowed more non-European people to immigrate to the US. As a result, Immigration more than doubled between 1965-1970
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