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Kennedy Assassination and Allied World Events of 1963
Flash on the AP wire reports President John F Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas at age 46 during a motorcade. Lyndon B Johnson sworn in at Love Field. News recounts Civil Rights gains, Birmingham church bombing, Meredith integrates Ole Miss, Wallace resistance, and national desegregation strides. Also summarized are Profumo scandal in Britain, Viet Nam war shifts, Thresher tragedy, and Pope Paul VI election.
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Kennedy
Associated Press
United States
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Dallas
Tex
Iia
John B. Connally Jr
Texas
Icar
Jacqueline Kennedy
White House
Capitol
St.Matthews Cathedral
Arlington National Cemetery
Lee Harvey Oswald
Wack Ruby
JFK
Medgar Evers
Mississippi
NAACP
Birmingham
16Th Street Baptist
Cambridge
Washington
James Meredith
University of Mississippi
Cleve McDowell
Ole Miss Law School
Meredith
George Wallace
Alabama
State National Guard
University of Alabama
Georgia
Prince Edward County
Britain
John Profumo
Harold Macmillan
House of Commons
Christine Keeler
Profumo
Christine
Fivgeny Ivanov
Macmillan