Reply #219: Lyndon Johnson was Senate Majority Leader.

[suzie]

Please indicate which "...civil rights legislation had passed under JFK".

There had been a weak civil rights act passed in 1957. JFK had been instrumental in weakening it. I believe that Lyndon Johnson voted for it.

Without the assassination, you are probably correct that the Civil Rights Act would not have passed. It is unlikely that JFK would have expended the political capital necessary to get the legislation through the Congress.