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May 18, 2023

President Kennedy Gets Warm Welcome in Nashville

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

May 18, 2023

President Kennedy's Nashville Address

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

May 16, 2023

President Kennedy Telephones Congratulations to Cooper

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

May 16, 2023

Joan Kennedy Has Miscarriage

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

May 16, 2023

Malcolm X Criticizes President Kennedy on Race Issue

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, 2023

President Kennedy Pleased with Cooper Launch

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, 2023

Alabama Motorcade Nixed for JFK

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

May 13, 2023

President Kennedy Sends Telegram to Governor Wallace

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

May 12, 2023

🚨President Kennedy Activates Federal Troops in Alabama

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

May 11, 2023

Nuclear Accord Reached Between U.S. and Canada

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, 2023

Vice President Johnson Waits His Turn in the Shadow of JFK

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, 2023

JFK Meets with Committee for “Operation Sail 1964”

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

May 9, 2023

President Kennedy Welcomes Cartoonists to White House

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

May 9, 2023

President Kennedy Honors Paderewski

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, 2023

May 8, 1963 - JFK Speaks to Foreign Students

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, 2023

President Kennedy Questioned on Churchill Statue

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, 2023

President Kennedy Sees Possible Settlement in Birmingham

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

May 7, 2023

President Kennedy Presidents Young American Medals

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

May 6, 2023

Former Servicement Sentenced after Pleading Guilty to Kennedy Death Threat

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, 2023

May 4, 1963 - JFK Remarks to VMI Cadets

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