The phrase "affirmative action" and much of the executive order Trump is repealing, itself built on one signed by Johnson's ...

President Donald Trump announced over the weekend that he would be releasing long-sought classified documents pertaining to ...

In the executive order regarding the three assassinations, Trump wrote: “Their families and the American people deserve transparency and truth.” ...

Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson assumed the presidency after the assassination of President John Kennedy in November 1963. Johnson declared a “war on poverty” in his 1964 election campaign, ...

US President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday declassifying files on the 1960s assassinations of president John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert F. Kennedy and civil rights leader Martin ...

In the final days of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s administration, his Interior Department pulled a fast one on him, renaming ...

John F. Kennedy’s grandson took issue with Donald Trump’s decision to declassify the remaining redacted files on his grandfather’s assassination, describing the president as no hero. Jack Schlossberg, ...

"A Great Society" for the American people and their fellow men elsewhere was the vision of Lyndon B. Johnson. In his first years of office he obtained passage of one of the most extensive legislative ...

On June 11, 1963, President John F. Kennedy addressed the nation on the most pressing domestic issue of the day: the struggle to affirm civil rights for all Americans. His administration had ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Nov. 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, was shot to death in a motorcade in Dallas.