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