1960s Timeline

May 24, 1962 - President Kennedy, using a silver trowel, helped lay the cornerstone today of the $70 million Sam Rayburn House office...

May 23, 1962 - Following are the highlights of President Kennedy’s news conference today: Refugees — He disclosed that a limited number...

May 23, 1962 - President Kennedy promised reporters today to give them an answer next week on the Government’s attitude toward studies...

May 23, 1962 - President Kennedy said today that the Administration did not plan to ask Congress in a year or two to extend medical care...

Headlines: President Kennedy takes on the AMA; in Vietnam, an American general’s son is wounded; Martin Luther King predicts the future;...

May 23, 1962 - A son of General Lucius D. Clay, President Kennedy’s former representative in Berlin, was among four U.S. officers wounded...

May 22, 1962 - Two sets of the first two volumes of the papers of James Madison were presented to President Kennedy today. Mr. Kennedy...

May 22, 1962 - The American Medical Association fired a television salvo last night against President Kennedy’s program for medical care...

May 21, 1962 - Here is a brief video clip of President Kennedy’s remarks at the White House Conference on National Economic Issues. #JFK...

May 20, 1962 - President Kennedy spoke at Madison Square Garden today in an effort to boost his health care program. #JFK #1960s #history...

May 20, 1962 - The Rev. Martin Luther King predicted today that segregation would be wiped out in his lifetime. He also accused President...

May 20, 1962 - President Kennedy took the case for medical care for the aged under Social Security directly to the people today. He told...

May 20, 1962 - Lieut. Comdr. Scott Carpenter will be the first American to eat solid food in space, according to present plans for his...

May 20, 1962 - President Kennedy made the case for health care for the aged through Social Security today at a televised rally at Madison...

May 20, 1962 - A high point of President Kennedy’s Birthday Salute at Madison Square Garden last night was the entrance of Marilyn...

May 20, 1962 - Much of the President’s talk at Madison Square Garden last night was in a light vein and devoted to returning comic shafts...

May 20, 1962 - President Kennedy appealed last night for the election of a Congress in sympathy with his Administration’s goals and...

May 19, 1962 - Marilyn Monroe sang a special rendition of "Happy Birthday" to President Kennedy at tonight's Democratic fundraising event...

May 19, 1962 - President Kennedy attended a glittering birthday dinner in his honor tonight at the Four Seasons restaurant — a prelude to...

May 19, 1962 - President Kennedy visited his ailing father twice today and was reported gratified by the improvement in the elder Mr....