For the Baby Boomers, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy took on the same sense of tragedy as the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks did for Generation Y - not only for the effect that it had on the nation's morale but for the conspiracy theories that would follow in its wake as well. In the aftermath of the assassination,

• Lee Harvey Oswald
• Gerald Ford
• Fidel Castro
• John F. Kennedy
• Robert F. Kennedy
• Nikita Khrushchev
• Lady Bird Johnson
• Lyndon B. Johnson