Why do you think he changed "every American" to "all people" and "the nation and the whole free world" to "the world"?
What does this tell you about the impact of the assassination of President Kennedy?
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People around the world reacted to the assassination of President Kennedy with grief, horror, uncertainty, and fear. Was the assassination part of some larger plot? Was this an act of war? Lyndon Johnson's first responsibility as President of the United States was to console the nation and to reassure foreign countries that the policies and power of the United States government remained intact.
President Johnson's younger daughter, Luci Baines Johnson, was in Spanish class at the National Cathedral School in Washington, D.C. when she heard that President Kennedy had been shot.
Her older sister, Lynda Johnson Robb, was in her dormitory at the University of Texas in Austin when a friend came to tell her the news.
Watch excerpts below to learn more more about how the assassination of President Kennedy impacted the Johnson daughters and the nation.
After the assassination of President Kennedy, Mrs. Johnson said her priorities were to “ease Mrs. Kennedy’s burdens, if she could,” and “to make a comfortable, peaceful place” for her husband “to work and prepare to carry all the heavy load of public service”
Mrs. Johnson had the foresight to keep a meticulous record of daily events in the White House by recording an audio diary describing her experiences.
Click here to listen to Mrs. Johnson's audio diary for November 22, 1963.