President Lyndon Johnson appears on television to proclaim November 25 as a national day of mourning. He tells a grief-stricken nation: “John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th President of the United States, has been taken from us by an act which outrages decent men everywhere… As he did not shrink from his responsibilities, but welcomed them, so he would not have us shrink from carrying on his work beyond this hour of national tragedy…therefore, I, Lyndon B. Johnson…do appoint Monday next, November 25…a national day of mourning.”

Robert and Anne Linville Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza.