Making the world better, one answer at a time. John F Kennedy passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. He didn't actually pass it, Lyndon B. Johnson, the new president passed it because Kennedy was assisinated in Novemeber 1963. John Fitzgerald Kennedy, President of the United States of America  was shot to death by Lee Harvey Oswald on November 22 1963 in  Dallas, Texas A commission of enquiry: The Warren Commission,  concluded that Oswald was acting alone and that no other person or  persons was involved.