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The United States House of Representatives Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) was established on September 15, 1976 by U.S. House Resolution 1540 [7] to investigate the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. in 1963 and 1968, respectively. The select committee was first formed by the 94th United States Congress, and ...
Assassination of John F. Kennedy. On November 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, was assassinated while riding in a presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was in the vehicle with his wife Jacqueline, Texas Governor John Connally, and Connally's wife Nellie, when he was fatally shot ...
The Warren Commission on 14 August 1964. The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, known unofficially as the Warren Commission, was established by President Lyndon B. Johnson through Executive Order 11130 on November 29, 1963, [1] to investigate the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy that had taken place on November 22, 1963.
November 22, 1963: Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson became President of the United States on the death of President John F. Kennedy.; March 30 – June 10, 1964: The longest filibuster in the history of the Senate was waged against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, with 57 days of debate over a 73-day period.
The oldest president at the time of death was George H. W. Bush, who died at the age of 94 years, 171 days. [ c ] John F. Kennedy , assassinated at the age of 46 years, 177 days, was the youngest to have died in office; the youngest to have died by natural causes was James K. Polk , who died of cholera at the age of 53 years, 225 days.
An Act to provide for the expeditious disclosure of records relevant to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992, or the JFK Records Act, is a public law passed by the United States Congress, effective October 26, 1992. [1] It directed the National Archives and ...
John F. Kennedy's tenure as the 35thpresident of the United Statesbegan with his inaugurationon January 20, 1961, and ended with his assassinationon November 22, 1963. Kennedy, a Democratfrom Massachusetts, took office following his narrow victory over Republicanincumbent vice president Richard Nixonin the 1960 presidential election.
Her brother-in-law, President John F. Kennedy, had been assassinated in Dallas less than five years earlier. Her parents were killed in a plane crash in 1955, and her brother died in a 1966 crash.