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*** We may not have had the War on Poverty or the Civil Rights Act.****

Great examples of the myth creating around JFK.
“The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was proposed by President John F. Kennedy in 1963 and later signed into law by his successor, President Lyndon B. Johnson, in 1964.”

“Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward have probably been most widely read. President John F. Kennedy and President Johnson, they argue, launched the War on Poverty in order to attract a high percentage of black votes in the 1964
election.”

[hardspunned]

See post #29

[Pontiac]

“The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was proposed by President John F. Kennedy in 1963 and later signed into law by his successor, President Lyndon B. Johnson, in 1964.”

Proposed by Kennedy, yes.

But would it have passed without Kennedy's death?

Kennedy's assassination generated a great deal of sympathy towards his goals.