Lyndon B. Johnson became president after JFK was assassinated. In the White House, he passed bills prohibiting discrimination, but the ongoing Vietnam War created controversy during his presidency.

Lyndon B. Johnson insisted that JFK’s wife Jackie Kennedy accompany him back to Washington hours after her husband's assassination on November 22, 1963.

The Soviet Union theorized that President Lyndon B. Johnson could have been behind JFK’s assassination — and also feared Moscow could be blamed and attacked, according to documents in a major ...

When LBJ took office after John F. Kennedy was assassinated, the country ... One president emerged as a pivotal figure in the progression of the Civil Rights Movement and that was Lyndon B. Johnson.

A number of memorable images came from those tragic few days after President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas in 1963: Lyndon B. Johnson being sworn in as the successor president on Air ...

Part 1 – Beautiful Texas. We delve into the life of Lyndon Baines Johnson, his rise from obscurity to the pinnacle of power. Sworn in after the assassination of JFK, Lyndon Johnson pushed ...

On July 10, 1960, Lyndon B. Johnson joined “Meet the Press” as a presidential candidate along with other Democratic candidates, Stuart Symington and John F. Kennedy. In the 90-minute interview ...

When Lyndon B. Johnson came to Portland 60 years ago, ... Johnson’s arrival came less than a year after he assumed the presidency in the wake of John F. Kennedy’s assassination, ...

According to the University of Michigan, on Oct. 14, 1960, Sen. John F. Kennedy, ... After Kennedy's death, President Lyndon B. Johnson had the car be painted a traditional black.

After the atrocities of Bloody Sunday, President Lyndon B. Johnson called out in 1965 for voting and civil rights , stating “Their cause must be our cause too.” ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson federalized the National Guard in 1965, calling on troops to protect civil rights advocates who were marching from Selma, Ala., to Montgomery.