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Assassination of Kennedy Tops 1963 News Year
The AP notes Kennedy’s assassination in Dallas as the year’s top story with Lyndon B. Johnson sworn in as president. Civil rights era crises and race-related violence, including Birmingham and Cambridge, are ranked second with mass marches and desegregation milestones.
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Kennedy
Associated Press
United States
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Dallas
Tex
John B. Connally, Jr
Texas
Parkland Hospital
Lyndon Baines Johnson
Love Field
Washington
Jacqueline Kennedy
White House
Capitol
St. Matthew’s Cathedral
Arlington National Cemetery
Lee Harvey Oswald
Jacky
JFK
Cambridge
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
Evgeny Ivanov
Macmillan
Conservative
Society Osteopath
Stephen Ward
Mandy Rice-Davies
Ward
John F. Kennedy
U.S. Capitol
Caroline