JFK
Oswald "I'm a patsy"
Motive: not concrete. maybe because we tried to kill Castro? US military? Soviet Union? Was Nixon involved? The Three Tramps, look suspiciously close to Watergate Scandal participants.
Oswald killed by Jack Ruby. Supposedly did it for Jacqueline, didn't want pain of a trial for her.
Lyndon Johnson becomes president, sets up Warren Commission to find out more about the assassination=no evidence of conspiracy. Magic bullet theory, through JFKs back out his neck hit Connellys shoulder to his wrist and into his leg.
JFK Act, mandated the gathering and opening of all records concerned with the assassination of JFK.
Lyndon Johnson
wanted all Kennedys out of office immediately.
1964 election, Johnson vs Goldwater, blowout.
Accomplishments: Warren Commission, Civil Rights Act of 1964 (outlawed most forms of racial segregation), Voting Rights Act (outlawed discrimination in voting), affirmative action laws, Immigration Act of 1965 (allowed more non-European people to immigrate to US)
The Great Society: aid education, attack disease, Medicare/Medicaid, urban renewal, conservation, war on poverty, control/prevention of crime, removal of obstacles to the right to vote
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