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Presidential Assassinations | Three Shots in Dallas | 3
American History Tellers
Lyndon Johnson's First Steps
Lyndon Johnson became the 36th president tasked with taking control of a shaken and grieving nation. The Secret Service feared that Kennedy's murder might be part of a broader conspiracy and that Johnson's life was also at risk So immediately after the shooting they urged Johnson to get to love field and fly back to Washington. But before Johnson could leave the hospital there was a dispute over Kennedy's body. After a heated argument Johnson and other federal officials overruled him so the president's body was loaded into a casket driven to love field and carried awkwardly up the portable stairway onto Air Force One Before they took off Johnson phoned Bobby Kennedy in Washington for his legal advice on taking the presidential oath
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