1960s Timeline

May 18, 1963 - Nashville, Tennessee gave President Kennedy a warm Southern welcome today. Some 2,000 persons turned out at the Municipal...

May 18, 1963 - Here is President Kennedy’s address today at a convocation held in Nashville celebrating the 90th anniversary of...

May 16, 1963, President Kennedy telephoned his congratulations to Major Gordon Cooper minutes after he emerged from the space capsule...

May 16, 1963 - Mrs. Joan Kennedy (pictured in October 1961), wife of Massachusetts Senator Edward M. Kennedy, youngest brother of the...

May 16, 1963 - Malcolm X (pictured) attacked President Kennedy today for the manner in which he has dealt with the Birmingham crisis and...

May 15, 1963 - President Kennedy expressed happiness at the success of Major Gordon Cooper’s launching into space this morning at 9:04...

May 14, 1963 - President Kennedy (pictured in November with Secret Service agents Roy Kellerman, Gerald A. Behn, and John Campion) has...

May 13, 1963 - President Kennedy (pictured after last night’s televised statement) said today that any further disposition of Federal...

🚨May 12, 1963 - President Kennedy tonight dispatched Federal troops to bases near Birmingham, Ala., for use if racial violence breaks...

May 11, 1963 - The United States is expected to arm its Canadian-based missiles with nuclear warheads by late summer as the result of an...

May 10, 1963 - To a degree incredible for a man who loves to dominate the public spotlight, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson has removed...

May 10, 1963 - President Kennedy, a seafarer of long standing, proudly showed off his collection of ship models today to a group...

May 9, 1963 - President Kennedy today welcomed members of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists to the White House and...

May 9, 1963 - “You have to be a free man to be a great artist,” President Kennedy said today at the dedication of a marker at the grave...

May 8, 1963 - Here are some of President Kennedy’s remarks today at a reception for foreign students held on the South Lawn of the White...

May 8, 1963 - President Kennedy was asked at his news conference today if he favored erecting a statue of Sir Winston Churchill in the...

May 8, 1963 - President Kennedy said today that business leaders in Birmingham, Ala., had pledged “substantial steps” to begin to meet...

May 7, 1963 - President Kennedy and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy presented five Young American medals, one of them posthumously, to...

May 6, 1963 - A former serviceman who pleaded guilty to a charge that he threatened to murder President Kennedy was sentenced to a year...

May 4, 1963 - Here are President Kennedy’s remarks today to cadets from the Virginia Military Institute in the White House Rose Garden....