Kennedy, LBJ, Civil Rights Review

Attorney General under JFK and US Senator, used position to target segregation and fight racism

• John F. Kennedy

• Robert Kennedy

• Lyndon B. Johnson

• Richard Nixon

36th President of the US, focused on ending poverty and extending federal protections to African Americans

• John F. Kennedy

• Robert Kennedy

• Lyndon B. Johnson

• Richard Nixon

35th President of the US, tried to push through civil rights legislation prior to his death in 1963, attempted to ease tensions with the USSR, but presided during some of the most intense moments in the Cold War

• John F. Kennedy

• Robert Kennedy

• Lyndon B. Johnson

• Richard Nixon

Vice President under Eisenhower and Republican Presidential candidate in 1960

• John F. Kennedy

• Robert Kennedy

• Lyndon B. Johnson

• Richard Nixon

Assassinated President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, TX

• John F. Kennedy

• Sirhan Sirhan

• Lyndon B. Johnson

• Lee Harvey Oswald

Assassinated Robert Kennedy in Los Angeles in 1968

• John F. Kennedy

• Sirhan Sirhan

• Lyndon B. Johnson

• Lee Harvey Oswald

First American to orbit the Earth

• Neil Armstrong

• Yuri Gagarin

• Alan Shepard

• John Glenn

First human to go into orbit around the Earth

• Neil Armstrong

• Yuri Gagarin

• Alan Shepard

• John Glenn

First American in space

• Neil Armstrong

• Yuri Gagarin

• Alan Shepard

• John Glenn

First man to walk on the moon's surface

• Neil Armstrong

• Yuri Gagarin

• Alan Shepard

• John Glenn