Lyndon B. Johnson became the 36th President of the United States when John F. Kennedy was assassinated on Nov. 22, 1963. After finishing Kennedy's term, Johnson ran in his own right and won the ...

Legendary newspaper photographer Terry Phelan, who died this week age 87, took thousands of stunning photos during a ...

Oct. 1, 2024 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app + Encores Saturday, Oct. 5 at 7 a.m. and 1 p.m. on KPBS 2. The film tells the ...

National Hispanic Heritage Month is underway, running from Sept. 15 until Oct. 15. But how did it get started? Here's when ...

National recognition of a celebration of Hispanic and Latino culture began in 1968 after President Lyndon B. Johnson ...

Increasingly and by the slimmest margin, flipping battleground North Carolina from Republican to Democrat in electoral ...

Several months later, on July 2, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits ...

A Letter to Lyndon B Johnson or God: Whoever Reads This First, created and performed by Xhloe Rice and Natasha Roland, tells the story of two young Boy Scouts, nicknamed Ace and Grasshopper ...

Before Hispanic Heritage Month became a month of celebration, the observation was only held for a week in 1968 under ...

It wasn't just in politics where LBJ's left his mark—his choice of wheels was just as memorable. Enter the 1964 Lincoln ...

The National Hispanic Heritage Month begins on Sept. 15, marking the anniversary of independence for Latin American countries ...