Assassination of JFK and After Effects

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About how long was Kennedy's presidency?

A little over a thousand days

Where did LBJ take the Oath of Office?

Aboard Air Force One at Love Field Airport in Dallas, Texas

About how long after the assassination was Kennedy sworn in?

About 2 hours after

What did LBJ seek to do?

Allay fears that a sinister and wide-ranging conspiracy had left to the assassination by appointing a special commission to review the circumstances of the killing

What happened in 2013?

Americans learnt the truth behind that document; They had sought to cover up the fact that the Bureau had been investigating Oswald and had considered him a danger to the president

Who chaired the investigation of Kennedy's assassination?

Chief Justice of the supreme court-Earl Warren

What did Johnson do a week following Kennedy's death?

He gave the executive order to rename NASA launch station at Cape Canaveral Florida the John F. Kennedy Space Center

What about Oswald raised suspicions of a larger plot later?

He had spent time in the soviet union

Why did Hoover conceal the information discovered?

He wanted to protect the FBI from embarrassment

Where was JFK's motorcade on the way to when he was shot?

He was going to a luncheon with civic and business leaders

Why did Kennedy travel to Dallas?

He was making an effort to smooth strained relations between liberal Democrats and the conservative , southern wing of the party

Where were the two bullets aimed at JFK shot?

His head and his neck

What did Johnson signal following Kennedy's death?

His leadership would honor his predecessor

Who was the director of the FBI at the time of Kennedy's assassination?

J Edgar Hoover

Who shot Oswald?

Jack Ruby

Who was JFK's killer?

Lee Harvey Oswald

What day was JFK assassinated?

November 22, 1963

What were the findings of the Warren report?

Oswald had acted alone, as had Ruby

When was the Warren report published?

September 1964

Who else was in the car with JFK when he was assassinated?

Texas Governor John Connally and his wife Nellie and Jackie Kennedy

What created a fertile ground for conspiracy theories?

The popular belief that the assassination marked the end of a historic opportunity for change, combined with the bizarre circumstances surrounding Lee Harvey Oswald's death

Why did Johnson and the secret service decide to conduct the swearing in as fast as possible?

The president had a central role as commander in chief in tehe midst of the cold war

Why were suspicions aroused of Johnson being in on the assassination?

The rushed move of Kennedy's body back to the nation's capital combined with the quick swearing

Where was the assassin of JFK hidden?

The upper floor of a book depository

How did Kennedy's presidency leave left liberal Democrats and civil rights supporters?

With a painful sense of squashed hope and unfulfilled promise


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