Video: 'Lyndon Johnson Swearing-in Nov 22, 1963'

(Friday, November 22, 1963, 2:38 p.m. CST) — 98 minutes after U.S. President John F. Kennedy was pronounced dead from gunshot wounds to his upper back and head while riding in an open presidential car in Dallas, Texas, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn-in today as the 36th President of the United States by U.S. District Judge Sarah T. Hughes, on board Air Force One prior to the airplane’s departure from Dallas.

Johnson, 55, who was from Texas and was also riding in Kennedy’s motorcade, was not injured in the assassination of Kennedy.

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Because a Bible could not be located on the plane, Johnson took his oath instead upon a Roman Catholic liturgical book, the Saint Joseph Sunday Missal.

Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy, still in her blood-spattered clothes from her husband’s assassination, stood next to Johnson as the oath was administered. Kennedy’s coffin was also aboard the aircraft by this time.

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Air Force One departed nine minutes later (2:47 p.m. CST) and arrived two hours and 11 minutes later at Andrews Air Force Base near Camp Springs, Prince George’s County, Maryland, at 5:58 p.m. EST.