Lyndon Baines Johnson is sworn is as president after Kennedy assassination

Flanked by Jackie Kennedy (R) and his wife, Ladybird, Vice President Lyndon Johnson is sworn in as president of the United States of America by Dallas Federal District Judge Sarah T. Hughes (L) on November 22, 1963. They were aboard the presidential airplane Air Force One returning from Dallas to Washington following president Kennedy's assassination. Photo by Cecil Stoughton/JFK Library