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...
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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...
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