On November 22, 1963, President Kennedy was shot twice as he rode in a motorcade in downtown Dallas, Texas

Over the hour following Kennedy's assassination, the White House Situation Room relayed reports on the developing situation in Dallas to White House press secretary Pierre E. G. Salinger while he was airborne en route to Japan

Thirty minutes after leaving Dallas, President and Lady Bird Johnson called the Kennedy family compound in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, and offered their condolences to Rose F. Kennedy, mother of the late president

Shortly after speaking to Rose Kennedy, President and Lady Bird Johnson called Idanell B. “Nellie” Connally, wife of Texas governor John B. Connally—who was shot and seriously wounded while riding in President Kennedy’s motorcade

In their first recorded conversation on the Johnson White House tapes, President Johnson spoke with  former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy ten days after the assassination of President Kennedy

President Johnson called FBI director J. Edgar Hoover to notify him of the course decided on now that Lee Harvey Oswald, the suspect in President Kennedy’s assassination, had been shot and killed by Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby

President Johnson asked Rep. Gerald R. “Jerry” Ford Jr., then the House Republican conference chair, to serve on the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, known unofficially as the Warren Commission 

In two conversations on November 29, 1963, President Johnson implored Sen. Richard Russell Jr. to serve on the commission investigating Kennedy’s assassination—but Russell opposed working alongside the head of the commission, Chief Justice Earl Warren

The Miller Center's Marc Selverstone discusses President Kennedy's decision to intervene in Vietnam during the summer of 1961

While dictating a memoir entry on November 4, 1963, less than three weeks before he himself would be assassinated, Kennedy reflected on the overthrow and murder of South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm

What might have Kennedy done in Vietnam had he lived into 1964 and won a second term as president?

The Miller Center’s Marc Selverstone makes the case that Kennedy’s withdrawal plan was a canny political device for the Vietnam War—designed to manage public opinion while preserving U.S. military assistance

John F. Kennedy had promised much—but never had the opportunity to see his program through

The Cuban Missile Crisis was the signature moment of Kennedy's presidency 

On June 11, 1963, President Kennedy gave a televised address to the American people and announced that he would be sending a civil rights bill to Congress—the most-far reaching act of legislation supporting racial equality in American history

Just hours after Kennedy’s funeral, President Johnson spoke with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. about his commitment to Kennedy’s legislative agenda, including the civil rights bill that faced tough opposition on Capitol Hill