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Apr 24, 2023

Robert F. Kennedy Prepares for Alabama Visit

Apr. 24, 1963 - Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy said tonight that neither politics nor a defiant Governor George C. Wallace would...

Apr 13, 2023

Belafonte Asks JFK and RFK for Help in Birmingham

Apr. 13, 1963 - President Kennedy and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy were urged in telegrams today to act immediately “to end the...

Apr 1, 2023

Hoffa Hits Robert Kennedy

Apr. 1, 1963 - U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy (pictured left in 1958) is a “spoiled young millionaire” who is using the...

Mar 1, 2023

RFK: No Plans To Run for President in 1968

Mar. 1, 1963 - Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy replied “emphatically not” when asked today if he were planning to run for President in...

Feb 28, 2023

Hoffa Again Blasts Attorney General

Feb. 28, 1963 - Teamsters president James R. Hoffa (pictured) again blasted U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy today and said the...

Feb 13, 2023

Attorney General Sees Progress in War on Organized Crime

Feb. 13, 1963 - Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy told a Los Angeles press conference today that, although the Justice Department has...

Feb 13, 2023

Hoffa Accuses Attorney General of “Personal Vendetta”

Feb. 12, 1963 - James R. Hoffa, President of the Teamsters Union, accused Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy today of carrying on a...

Feb 6, 2023

Attorney General’s Wife Enjoys Ice Capades

Feb. 6, 1963 - Pictured below, six-year-old Courtney Kennedy, with her eyes fixed on the Ice Capade spectacle in front of her and a...

Jan 24, 2023

Cubans Insist Air Cover Was Promised for ’61 Bay of Pigs Invasion

Jan. 24, 1963 - Despite denials by President Kennedy, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, and Col. José Perez-San Roman, brigade...

Jan 23, 2023

Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy’s Wife Ethel Expecting 8th Child

Jan. 23, 1963 - Mrs. Ethel Kennedy, wife of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, is expecting her eighth child sometime in July. Her...

Jan 21, 2023

Robert Kennedy Speaks Out on James Meredith

Jan. 21, 1963 - Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy (left) said today that even if James Meredith (right) left the University of...

Jan 10, 2023

Attorney General Hits Subversive Group

Jan. 10, 1963 - Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy asked the Subversive Activities Control Board today to order Advance, a New York City...

Dec 25, 2022

Details Emerge on Bay of Pigs Prisoner Swap

Dec. 25, 1962 - General Lucius D. Clay, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, and others raised almost $3 million in cash this week to make...

Dec 13, 2022

Alabama’s Governor-Elect calls RFK “Sapling Caesar”

Dec. 13, 1962 - Alabama Governor-elect George C. Wallace (pictured) today called Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy a “sapling Caesar”...

Dec 5, 2022

Attorney General Urges Youth to Educate Themselves About U.S.

Dec. 5, 1962 - Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy asserted in New York today that American students planning to travel abroad without...

Oct 28, 2022

Attorney General Links Cuban Crisis to Racial Turmoil

Oct. 28, 1962 - Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy said tonight that the tensions between the U.S. and Soviet Union over Cuba were linked...

Oct 9, 2022

Robert Kennedy Extols Government’s Handling of Mississippi Crisis

Oct. 9, 1962 - Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy said in a broadcast to foreign countries today that “what the world saw in Mississippi...

Sep 30, 2022

RFK Comforts Colleague’s Daughter

Sept. 30, 1962 - Josephine Marshall, the 11-year-old daughter of the Justice Department’s civil rights chief, Burke Marshall (left), fell...

Sep 30, 2022

🚨JFK Calls Mississippi National Guard Into Service

Sept. 30, 1962 - At midnight last night, President Kennedy committed the full weight of the Federal Government to end Mississippi’s...

Sep 29, 2022

RFK Criticizes American Bar Association

Sept. 29, 1962 - Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy expressed disappointment today that the American Bar Association and “the many...