Laura Roslin

Laura Roslin is the President of the Twelve Colonies of Kobol, played by Mary McDonnell in the 2003 version of Battlestar Galactica.

Before Succession

Roslin was the Secretary of Education to President Adar and had worked with him since he was a mayor of a major city on Caprica. Before attending the decommissioning of the Battlestar Galactica, she was diagnosed with breast cancer and informed it was untreatable.

Related Topics:
President Adar - Mayor - Caprica - Battlestar Galactica - Breast cancer

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During the latter part of the Cylon attack on the colonies, she responded to an automatic beacon, and was later informed that she (the 43rd in line) was the first (and possibly only) person in the line of succession to respond. She was sworn in as president by a priestess aboard her ship, in a scene highly reminiscent of the 1963 swearing-in of Lyndon Baines Johnson aboard Air Force One after the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy.

Related Topics:
1963 - Lyndon Baines Johnson - Air Force One - John F. Kennedy

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