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1.
John F. Kennedy, elected president in 1960. He was the nation's
first
Roman Catholic president. JFK was assassinated in 1963 during a
visit
to Dallas, Texas.
2.
Lyndon Johnson, the vice-president who became president upon the death
of John F. Kennedy. Johnson led a large expansion of federal
welfare,
housing, and education programs as part of his "War on Poverty."
3.
An African American woman in a business office. The decade of the
1960s saw tremendous gains made by women and minorities in all aspects
of American society.
4.
The spacecraft that first landed Americans on the moon in 1969.
Astronaut
Neil Armstrong stepped from the craft to the lunar surface as millions
of people watched on television around the world.
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