Incumbent president Lyndon B. Johnson enjoyed large-scale public sympathy following the assassination of his predecessor, ... Nelson Rockefeller Remarries // 1964 Presidential Election.

Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, left, Martin Luther King Jr., center, and Mayor Erastus ... Lawmakers aim to rename bridge to honor Sgt. Henry Johnson. Weather Mild days before intense heat arrives upstate.

Dakota Johnson has been acting for 15 years, but she revealed during an interview on Amy Poehler’s “Good Hang” podcast that just used an intimacy coordinator for the very first time on a ...

On July 30, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson and a group of U.S. congressmen showed up on the doorstep of former president Harry Truman in Independence, Mo. President Johnson had just won ...

A long line of civil rights marchers carrying flags moves along Route 80 near Selma, Ala., on March 22, 1965 as troops, called up by President Lyndon Johnson, move with them.

Lyndon Johnson had good reason: to protect Selma-to-Montgomery marchers, given that Alabama’s segregationist leaders couldn’t be expected to protect them.

For the first time in 60 years, a U.S. president has deployed the National Guard without a governor's approval. That time, Lyndon B. Johnson was defending civil rights. This time, say observers ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson federalized the National Guard in 1965, calling on troops to protect civil rights advocates who were marching from Selma, Ala., to Montgomery.

President Lyndon B. Johnson invoked that authority in 1965, calling on troops to protect civil rights advocates who were marching from Selma, Ala., to Montgomery. That incident is now in the spotlight ...

In a March 20, 1965, executive order, Lyndon Johnson cited a recent federal court order approving plans for activists to march from Selma to Montgomery on Highway 80. It would be the third ...