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2 days ago · Lee Harvey Oswald, accused assassin of U.S. President John F. Kennedy in Dallas on November 22, 1963. He himself was fatally shot two days later by Jack Ruby in the Dallas County Jail. Whether Oswald acted alone or as part of a conspiracy has been long debated.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
4 days ago · John F. Kennedy Jr., the son of the former president, was killed in a plane crash off the coast of Martha's Vineyard on July 16, 1999. Kennedy's wife Carolyn and her sister, Lauren Bessette,...
2 days ago · Malcolm X (born Malcolm Little, later el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz; May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965) was an African American revolutionary, Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a prominent figure during the civil rights movement until his assassination in 1965.
4 days ago · The assassination left a profound impact and was the first of four major assassinations during the 1960s in the United States, coming two years before the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965, and five years before the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Kennedy's brother Robert in 1968.
2 days ago · After her one surviving son, John F. Kennedy, Jr., was killed in a plane accident in July 1999, many books and articles assessed the recurring role of tragedy in the Kennedy story.
- Betty Boyd Caroli
1 day ago · Lyndon B. Johnson. Lyndon Baines Johnson (/ ˈlɪndən ˈbeɪnz /; August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973), often referred to as LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969. He became president after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, under whom he had served as the 37th vice ...
3 days ago · John F. Kennedy - Assassination, Presidency, Legacy: President Kennedy believed that his Republican opponent in 1964 would be Sen. Barry Goldwater of Arizona. He was convinced that he could bury Goldwater under an avalanche of votes, thus receiving a mandate for major legislative reforms.
