Jfk Assassination Essay

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JFK was on a ten mile ride in a convertible car with his wife jacqueline and former texas governor John Connallys and his wife also while they were driving by a book depository when Lee Harvey Oswald fired three shots from the third story of the building fatally killing JFK and injuring Connallys. JFK was pronounced dead thirty minutes after he got shot.
The impact that JFK had on the country was immeasurable because not only did he impact the people but he also impacted politics. On recordings made in the White House just before his death, President Kennedy told advisers that he expected a tough re-election campaign because of his support of civil rights.
JFK introduced the Civil Rights Act in June 1963. It faced pressure in Congress
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By July 1964, Johnson and his allies got the act approved. If Kennedy had lived, the debate over the Civil Rights Act would never have occurred during an election year.
Kennedy would have waited until after the 1964 election with the hope of having more leverage in Congress to pass the act. The combination of Kennedy and Johnson’s commitment to civil rights would still have been a huge hard fight without JFK’s assassination, probably wouldn’t have succeeded.
History records that once Johnson became president he was able to get the Civil Rights Act passed in 1964 and Voting Rights Act passed in 1965 using his mandate from a election, Kennedy’s legacy, and his considerable powers of persuasion in Congress.

Lyndon Johnson was then sworn in also in office for president after the assassination.The death of John F Kennedy made the 25th amendment so that we would know who to elect as president after the president is to sick to work, dead, or something wrong with him. The 25th amendment allows for the Vice President to become president in the event of death, resignation, removal from office or impairment that prevents the current president from fulfilling his or her