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While riding in a car with his wife in Dallas, Texas, John F. Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald.
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Hours after Kennedy was shot and killed, vice president Lyndon B. Johnson was inaugurated.
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Lyndon Johnson passes the Civil Rights Act.
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Johnson passes the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, involving the United States in the Vietnam War.
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Lyndon Johnson wins a landslide victory against Barry Goldwater to continue presidency.
