JFK Assassination&
LBJUS History II
<Nov. 22, 1963> JFK killed in DallasAn Unfinished Vision
• Kennedy travels to Dallas to begin re-election campaign• Motorcade through Dealey Plaza, downtown Dallas• 12:30pm shots fired• JFK killed – Texas Governor wounded• Sniper - 6th floor Texas School Book Depository• Lee Harvey Oswald arrested 2 hours later in a movie theater• Oswald killed 3 days later – Jack Ruby• LBJ sworn in on Air Force One
Warren CommissionPivotal Questions:
Did Oswald act alone?Was this assassination a bigger conspiracy?
Warren Commission•Established by Pres. Johnson to investigate•Headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren•Concluded Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone
House Select Committee on Assassinations
• Established 1976 - investigate MLK and JFK assassinations
• Concluded Oswald killed JFK / most likely part of a conspiracy
Potential Conspirators • C.I.A - embarrassment from Bay of
Pigs• Cuban exiles - upset over US turning
their back after failed invasion• Mafia - Lost business in Cuba
LBJ’s Great Society
•The President’s vision for America
•Civil Rights & End Poverty
Civil Rights Act No discrimination in public
accommodations, housing, & jobs
More federal power to prosecute Civil Rights Crimes
• 24th Amendment
Abolish Poll Tax in federal elections
• Voting Rights Act
Eliminated literacy tests The government can monitor voter
registration
War on Poverty
• Medicaid & Medicare
• Medical care for elderly and welfare recipients
• Low cost insurance
War on Poverty
HUD
•Department of Housing & Urban Development•Low rent public housing•Assist low-income to buy private housing
War on Poverty
Economic Opportunity Act
•Youth Programs (Head Start)•Small Business Loans•Job Training Programs
War on Poverty
Higher Education Act
Scholarships & low interest loans for college students
War on Poverty
PBS
Educational TV and Radio broadcasting