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==== Kennedy's assassination ==== When President [[John F. Kennedy]] was shot and killed, the jurisdiction fell to the local police departments until President [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] directed the FBI to take over the investigation.<ref name="history_postwar">{{cite web |url=https://www.fbi.gov/libref/historic/history/postwar.htm |title=Postwar America: 1945β1960s |publisher=Federal Bureau of Investigation |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150106195659/http://www2.fbi.gov/libref/historic/history/postwar.htm |archive-date=January 6, 2015}}</ref> To ensure clarity about the responsibility for investigation of homicides of federal officials, Congress passed a law in 1965 that included investigations of such deaths of federal officials, especially by homicide, within FBI jurisdiction.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/14/us/jfk-assassination-5-things/ |title=5 things you might not know about JFK's assassination |publisher=CNN |date=March 31, 2014 |first1=Tricia |last1=Escobedo |access-date=November 11, 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151116120144/http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/14/us/jfk-assassination-5-things |archive-date=November 16, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Public Law 89-141 β Chapter 84.β PRESIDENTIAL ASSASSINATION, KIDNAPPING, AND ASSAULT |url=http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/STATUTE-79/pdf/STATUTE-79-Pg580.pdf |access-date=September 20, 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170922155440/https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/STATUTE-79/pdf/STATUTE-79-Pg580.pdf |archive-date=September 22, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/part-I/chapter-84 |title=18 U.S. Code Chapter 84 β PRESIDENTIAL AND PRESIDENTIAL STAFF ASSASSINATION, KIDNAPPING, AND ASSAULT |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303031714/https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/part-I/chapter-84 |archive-date=March 3, 2016}}</ref>
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