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Just Days After JFK's Assassination, LBJ Renames

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Just Days After JFK's Assassination, LBJ Renames
<B>Just Days After JFK's Assassination, LBJ Renames the National Cultural Center after the Martyred President -- He Signs a Copy of the Official Government Printed House Joint Resolution 835</B></I> John F. Kennedy (1917-1963), thirty-fifth President (1961-1963). While in the Navy during World War II, Kennedy's PT boat was sunk and he earned a Purple Heart. He served as Congressman and Senator from Massachusetts, and his book, <I>Profiles in Courage,</B></I> won a Pulitzer Prize. Narrowly defeating Nixon in 1960, he faced problems like the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the growing civil rights movement, and the building of the Berlin Wall. He was assassinated in Dallas by Lee Harvey Oswald. Document signed, 2 pages, 7.5" x 11", December 4, 1963, Washington, D.C. Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973), thirty-sixth President (1963-1969), and Vice President under John F. Kennedy, became President after JFK's assassination in November 1963. The joint resolution has a clear "Lyndon B. Johnson" at the top of the first page, written in black marker, and reads: "Joint Resolution to provide for renaming the National Cultural Center as the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Memorial Center, and authorizing an appropriation therefor. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that as a mark of respect and affection for President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, as a recognition of his abiding desire to promote and encourage the arts in America, and as a commemoration of his great services to the Nation and people of the United States, the National Cultural Center provided for by the Act of September 2, 1958... as amended, shall be known hereafter as the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Memorial Center... There are hereby authorized to be appropriated, for payment to the trustees of the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Memorial Center for use in accordance with section 5 of the Act of September 2, 1958... amounts which in the aggregate will equal amounts given, bequeathed, or devised to said trustees pursuant to said section. When so specified in the pertinent appropriation act, amounts appropriated pursuant to this authorization shall remain available without fiscal year limitation." <I>Accompanied by COA from PSA/DNA.</B></I>