A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Jan. 22, 1973, former President Lyndon B. Johnson died at his Texas ranch of a heart attack at age 64. He left the ...

Until this past weekend, it had been 60 years since a U.S. president federalized a state's National Guard force without the cooperation of its governor. President Lyndon B. Johnson invoked that ...

The 60th anniversary of President Lyndon Johnson’s famous March 15, 1965, voting rights speech is an important reminder of the power of moral suasion when applied in support of basic democratic ...

INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (KCTV) - Sixty years ago Wednesday, President Lyndon B. Johnson traveled to Independence, Missouri, to sign a groundbreaking piece of legislation into law: the creation of Medicare ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson federalized the National Guard in 1965, calling on troops to protect civil rights advocates who were marching from... Until this past weekend, it had been 60 years since a ...