History of the United States II / Unit 14 USH2 1962 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Dallas
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The idea
On November twenty-second, nineteen sixty-three, Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, and Vice President Lyndon Johnson took the oath of office before leaving the city.
In practice
Lee Harvey Oswald arrested, and shot two days later by the nightclub owner Jack Ruby.
Where people slip
The Warren Commission concluded that Oswald acted alone and that there had been no conspiracy, the anchor records.
Your place on the trail
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