1960s Timeline

Aug. 3, 1963 - Philip L. Graham (pictured right in 1961), president and CEO of The Washington Post and chairman of the board of Newsweek...

Aug. 2, 1963 - There is one White House visitor President Kennedy’s two youngsters (pictured with nurse Maud Shaw) will be looking for...

Aug. 2, 1963 - President Kennedy greeted 100 members of Girls’ Nation today and avoided any controversy by telling them merely that they...

Aug. 1, 1963 - Following are some highlights of President Kennedy’s news conference today: Nuclear Testing — The President expressed...

Aug. 1, 1963 - President Kennedy welcomed today an apparent slackening in Negro demonstrations in some areas. However, he warned that the...

July 30, 1963 - American schoolchildren are stronger and in better condition now than they were two years ago, President Kennedy’s...

July 28, 1963 - President Kennedy and most of the numerous members of his family celebrated Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy’s 34th birthday today...

June 27, 1963 - President Kennedy made an unexpected stop at a convent near Wexford, Ireland today to meet his third cousin, Mother...

July 27, 1963 - First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy will celebrate her 34th birthday tomorrow in the manner she likes best — with little fuss...

July 27, 1963 - W. Averell Harriman (left) said today that the conclusion of a treaty to outlaw most nuclear tests had been received in...

July 26, 1963 - President Kennedy, speaking to the nation tonight in a “spirit of hope,” described the treaty for a limited nuclear test...

July 24, 1963 - The Air Force confirmed today that special quarters at Otis Air Force Base, located on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, had been...

July 23, 1963 - A film in which President Kennedy and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy discuss Governor George Wallace in connection...

July 20, 1963 - If the nation’s governors are an accurate political barometer, Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York has little...

July 19, 1963 - Surrounded by nieces and nephews, President Kennedy watched proudly today as Richard Cardinal Cushing, the Archbishop of...

July 19, 1963 - President Kennedy today personally congratulated pilot Betty Verret Miller, the first woman to fly alone across the...

July 18, 1963 - President Kennedy was mobbed today at the White House by more than 2,500 foreign students who converged on him in the...

July 17, 1963 - Following are highlights of President Kennedy’s news conference today: Nuclear Testing — President Kennedy pledged that...

July 17, 1963 - President Kennedy had words of advice and warning today for both civil rights demonstrators and ardent segregationists....

July 16, 1963 - President Kennedy told graduates of the NATO defense school today that the North American Treaty Organization must be...