John F. Kennedy (1963)

The assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas on 22 November 1963 remains the most analysed and debated event in American history, with the Warren Commission's conclusion of Oswald acting alone disputed by a majority of Americans. Its political consequences were immediate: LBJ used the national grief to pass the Civil Rights Act (1964) and Voting Rights Act (1965) that Kennedy had been unable to deliver.