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lyndon B Johnson was the successor of President John F Kennedy.

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Lyndon Johnson was Kennedy's vice-president and assumed the presidency when Kennedy was killed.

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Lyndon B. Johnson took over Kennedy's term after he was killed by Lee Harvey Oswald.

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Calvin Coolidge (John Calvin Coolidge, Jr.) He took over the presidency when Warren Harding died on 2nd August 1923.


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He was VP of JFK, and assumed office when JFK was assassinated in Dallas, Tx on 11/22/63.


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Lyndon B. Johnson


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As VP he became president automatically following the assassination of JFK.


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They organized a plan to take out JFK which worked. They really had nothing to do with the blacks. But the reason they took out jfk because they sought him as a threat to them and lyndon was vp. so if jk got killed lyndon Johnson could run as president.


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