79. Background Information LBJ and wife, Lady Bird Johnson Source: www. corrr1.com Lyndon Baines Johnson was born and raised in central Texas. He served in the U.S. Congress for 26 years , and in that time he developed a reputation to get things done. Some would even describe him as overpowering & intimidating . In the election of 1960, he ran as the Democratic vice presidential candidate with John F. Kennedy.
81. Kennedy’s Assassination Following the assassination of Kennedy, LBJ is sworn in as president of the US aboard Air Force One on November 22, 1963. Source: www. minnesota.publicradio.org
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88. Above: Lady Byrd Johnson Supports the Head Start program in Washington Source: www.lbjlib.utexas.edu Below: Lady Bird has lunch with school children in rural Kentucky
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4 out of 178 witnesses claimed to hear shots coming from multiple directions