1960s Timeline

June 30, 1963 - In Forest Row, England, a pistol sounded in the bushes. President Kennedy sat bolt upright in the back seat of his car....

June 30, 1963 - President Kennedy’s popularity has dropped sharply from its highest point. But despite a flood of rumors last week to the...

June 29, 1963 - President Kennedy and Prime Minister Macmillan began a detailed discussion today on how the U.S. and Britain will conduct...

June 29, 1963 - President Kennedy stood for two minutes with bowed head today at the grave of his sister Kathleen (pictured in 1940) in a...

June 29, 1963 - President Kennedy ended his three-day visit to Ireland today, promising to come back some day “and see old Shannon’s face...

June 29, 1963 - If Senator Barry Goldwater is nominated for President in 1964, Republicans in Austin say he would beat a Kennedy-Johnson...

June 28, 1963 - Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev rode through East Berlin today in a “friendship visit” that drew a considerably milder...

June 28, 1963 - President Kennedy declared today in Dublin that “there are no permanent enemies” in this world. He cited Ireland’s...

June 27, 1963 - Irish eyes were glued to television screens today, but it was in County Wexford on the Irish Sea, from which Patrick J....

June 27, 1963 - Henry Cabot Lodge (pictured with President Kennedy in December 1961), the Republican candidate for Vice President in...

June 26, 1963 - President Kennedy arrived in Dublin this evening and said it was “like coming home.” That was the way the Irish felt...

June 26, 1963 - President Kennedy saw the miracle and the tragedy of West Berlin today as the city turned out to greet him and applaud...

June 26, 1963 - Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy said today the Administration would be willing to exempt small stores and tourist...

June 26, 1963 - President Kennedy, inspired by a tumultuous welcome from more than a million of the inhabitants of the isolated and...

June 25, 1963 - President Kennedy renewed today in the heart of the Old World his call for interdependence between the U.S. and what he...

June 25, 1963 - Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy bade farewell today to eight teachers who will attend a special training institute on...

June 25, 1963 - President Kennedy visited American troops today and then went on to a triumphal reception in Hanau, Frankfurt, and...

June 25, 1963 - The Democrats decided today to hold their 1964 Presidential convention in Atlantic City, N.J. The convention will begin...

June 23, 1963 - President Kennedy opened his tour of Europe today with an enormous welcome from almost a million West Germans in Cologne,...

June 23, 1963 - Richard M. Nixon said today he supports the goals of President Kennedy’s civil rights proposals and believes Congress...