Mourning President Kennedy

Week of Jan. 3, 1964
President Johnson presides over a candlelighting ceremony marking the end of the official period of mourning for President Kennedy. "Let us here on this Christmas night determine that John Kennedy did not live or die in vain," Johnson says at the Lincoln Memorial, "that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom..."

• 
• Click to Print

• Find this article at:
• https://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2025424_2025441_2025496,00.html