Pt. 3 Flashcards
On November 22, 1963, he assassinated President Kennedy who was riding downtown Dallas, Texas. Oswald was later shot in front of television cameras by Jack Ruby.
Lee Harvey Oswald
Committee that investigated the assassination of President Kennedy, determined there was no conspiracy that Oswald acted alone, America doesn’t agree
Warren Commission
President Johnson’s plan that included Medicare, civil rights legislation, and federal aid to education, end poverty
Great Society
Banned formal prayer in schools
Engel v Vitale
A person who cannot afford an attorney may have one appointed by the government
Gideon v. Wainwright
Supreme Court held that criminal suspects must be informed of their right to consult with an attorney and of their right against self-incrimination prior to questioning by police.
Miranda v. Arizona
Secret group that advised JFK during Cuban missile crisis.
EX-COMM
Soviet Premier during the Cuban Missile Crisis
Nikita Khrushchev
November 22, 1963, apparently by Lee Harvey Oswald, who allegedly shot Kennedy as the president rode in an open car through Dallas.
Assassination of Kennedy
(Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee)-a group established in 1960 to organize students into an effective protest
SNCC
This was a protest that showed dogs attacking innocent black people, police spraying people with water, showed children, was televised, and included the arrest of Martin Luther King.
Protest in Birmingham
1964 eliminated the poll tax
24th Amendment
Removed literacy tests
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Dealt with the causes and solutions to race riots in the U.S.
Kerner Report
Accused and convicted of killing MLK
James Earl Ray
