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At 2:38 PM, on Nov. 22, 1963, took the oath of office as the 36th president of the United States. John F. Kennedy had been shot while riding in a parade through downtown Dallas. Johnson was riding two cars behind Kennedy. Johnson was Kennedy’s vice preside ....

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.... and a brother. When Lyndon was five, the family moved to Johnson City. To help earn money he shined shoes in the town’s only barber shop, and herded goats for the local ranchers. He finished high school in 1924 and with a group of friends he worked his way to California. He earned money doing odd jobs, but he barely made enough to feed himself. After awhile he became severely homesick and hungry so he hitchhiked back to Johnson City and took a job doing road construction. Soon he realized that a higher education would be needed if he wanted to have a better life. Johnson went to college at Southwest Texas State Teachers College. Johnson got ....