Lyndon Johnson's swearing-in shortly after JFK's assassination.
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Cecil Stoughton / LBJ Library / Screenshot
We are November 22, 1963. US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy has just been assassinated in Dallas (Texas).
Only two hours later, aboard Air Force One, the presidential plane, Lyndon Johnson was sworn in under the haunted gaze of Jackie Kennedy.
Behind the tragedy of the situation, it is the underlying tensions that must be seen, explains historian Thomas Snegaroff.
Tensions between ex-vice-president Johnson and the Kennedy clan, with the question that has since remained unresolved: who wanted such a quick swearing-in?
Bob Kennedy, John's little brother, then Minister of Justice?
Or Lyndon Johnson himself?
The specialist of the United States dissects this mythical cliché with our partner, Brut:
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