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What resulted from the assassination of President John F. Kennedy?

A. Lyndon B. Johnson became the new President.
B. The United States was unable to confront Soviet challenges.
C. The government ended its civil rights leadership.
D. Lee Harvey Oswald was convicted of murder.

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The assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963 lead to the Vice-President Lyndon Johnson becoming president of the United States, Johnson continued Kennedy's civil rights program and escalated the war in Vietnam. Elected in 1964 in his own right, he did not run again in 1968 because of opposition to the Vietnam War.

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A. Lyndon B. Johnson became the new President.

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