1960s Timeline

Sept. 20, 1963 - A graying Englishman born Archibald Alexander Leach fluttered the hearts of government ladies, brought squeals from...

Sept. 9, 1963 - Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy conceded today that President Kennedy’s drive to pass civil rights legislation is...

Sept. 3, 1963 - The Government made clear today that Federal troops or marshals would be used if necessary in the latest Alabama school...

Aug. 14, 1963 - Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy (pictured today in Harlem) paid a surprise visit to New York today to look over the...

July 25, 1963 - Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy said today the Justice Department had no evidence that Dr. Martin Luther King and...

July 19, 1963 - Surrounded by nieces and nephews, President Kennedy watched proudly today as Richard Cardinal Cushing, the Archbishop of...

July 12, 1963 - Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy took his wife Ethel and their eighth child home today from St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in...

July 5, 1963 - Mrs. Ethel Kennedy, 35, wife of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, gave birth to her eighth child last night — a “fine,...

July 2, 1963 - Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy (pictured with Sen. Warren Magnuson), in testimony before the Senate Commerce Committee...

July 1, 1963 - Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy asked the Senate today to pass a strong public accommodations bill in order to root out...

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

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

May 25, 1963 - Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy is reported to have had a heated discussion with a group of prominent Negroes yesterday...

May 22, 1963 - Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy led off the Administration’s fight for a domestic peace corps today by pointing to...

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

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

Apr. 26, 1963 - Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, visiting Atlanta on Confederate Memorial Day, praised progress made in Georgia and...

Apr. 25, 1963 - A school desegregation crisis drew nearer today in Alabama despite a conference between Attorney General Robert F....

Apr. 25, 1963 - Fifty state troopers armed with nightsticks, other state policemen in plain clothes, two dozen FBI agents, and a...