Lyndon B. Johnson's tenure as the 36th president of the United States began on November 22, 1963, upon the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, and ended on January 20, 1969. He had been vice p
Johnson in 1967
Johnson being sworn in on Air Force One
Johnson at a July 1965 Cabinet meeting
Appointed by Johnson in 1967, Thurgood Marshall (left) became the first African American on the Supreme Court
Opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War reached a substantial scale in 1965 with demonstrations against the country's escalating role in the war. Over the next several years, these
Presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson
…military personnel in Vietnam increased dramatically, from 16,000 soldiers in 1963 to over 500,000 in 1968. Growing anger with the war stimulated a large antiwar movement based especially on university campuses in the U.S. and abroad. Johnson faced further troubles when summer riots broke out in most major cities after…
A demonstrator offering a flower to a military police guard at the March on the Pentagon on October 21, 1967
Anti–Vietnam War protesters in Wichita, Kansas in 1967
US Marshals dragging away an anti–Vietnam War protester during a demonstration at the Pentagon in 1967
An anti–Vietnam War protest in Helsinki, Finland, in December 1967