How can the past shape our conversations about the present and the future? Objective By the end of this lesson, students will be able to answer the following questions: How did Vice President Lyndon Johnson, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, and Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. make use of the past to shape a conversation about the present? What are some connections that you can make between the ideas in these speeches and conversations that are happening today about civil rights? Background In the spring of 1963, the national conversation on civil rights was becoming more urgent as people acr Duration: 60 Minutes.