1960s Timeline

Nov. 23, 1963 - The assassination of a President is not covered by Federal law, according to the Justice Department. Lee Harvey Oswald...

Nov. 23, 1963 - The body of John Fitzgerald Kennedy lay in repose today in a closed, flag-draped coffin in the East Room of the White...

Nov. 23, 1963 - A grim-faced Premier Nikita Khrushchev today led most of the Communist world in offering condolences to the United States...

Nov. 23, 1963 - Lee Harvey Oswald, a 24-year-old warehouse worker who once lived in the Soviet Union, was formally charged at 1:35 a.m....

Nov. 22, 1963 - Former President Harry S. Truman, himself an intended victim of assassins’ bullets thirteen years ago this month, said...

Nov. 22, 1963 - The cry rang across New York City, echoing again and again: “Is it true? Is it true?” Another cry quickly took its place...

Nov. 22, 1963 - In Los Angeles this afternoon, grief and revulsion were the reaction to President Kennedy’s assassination. From Mayor to...

Nov. 22, 1963 - Television and radio stations in the New York metropolitan area announced today the temporary cancellation of many...

Nov. 22, 1963 - Disbelief, shock, tears, and finally outrage were Congress’ reactions today to the assassination of President Kennedy....

Nov. 22, 1963 - At 7:04 p.m. Central Standard Time, Captain J.W. Fritz of the Homicide and Robbery Bureau of the Dallas Police Department...

Nov. 22, 1963 - After the Presidential jet landed at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland at 5:58 p.m., the coffin containing President...

Nov. 22, 1963 - Captain John William Fritz of the Homicide and Robbery Bureau of the Dallas Police Department conducted the initial...

Nov. 22, 1963 - From Air Force One in flight, 28 minutes after the Presidential plane left Dallas, Lyndon B. Johnson made his first...

Nov. 22, 1963 - Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson, who was riding in the third car behind the late President John F. Kennedy’s car in...

🚨Nov. 22, 1963 - A suspect in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and in the murder of Dallas police officer J.D. Tippit has...

Nov. 22, 1963 - A suspect in the murder of Dallas police officer J.D. Tippit was apprehended at 1:50 p.m. Central Standard Time in the...

Nov. 22, 1963 - John Fitzgerald Kennedy is the fourth President of the United States to be killed by an assassin. Two other Presidents...

Nov. 22, 1963 - President John Fitzgerald Kennedy died today of a wound in the brain caused by a bullet fired at him as he was riding...

Nov. 22, 1963 - Officer J.D. Tippit, an Army veteran of World War II and an 11-year veteran with the Dallas Police Department, was shot...

🚨Nov. 22, 1963 - Eddie Barker, news director of CBS’s Dallas affiliate KRLD, reported the following at 1:16 p.m. Central Standard Time:...