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Sep 28, 2023

McNamara and Taylor Tour South Vietnam

Sept. 28, 1963 - Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and General Maxwell Taylor, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, today toured...

Sep 27, 2023

President Kennedy Enters Homestretch of Western Tour

Sept. 27, 1963 - President Kennedy entered the homestretch on his tour of the West today, picking up speed and dropping off gifts along...

Sep 26, 2023

President Kennedy Speaks at Mormon Tabernacle in Salt Lake City

Sept. 26, 1963 - In a speech that seemed aimed at such conservative critics as Senator Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.), President Kennedy...

Sep 26, 2023

Rep. Roosevelt Unveils Stamp Bearing His Mother’s Likeness

Sept. 26, 1963 - The late Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt once said that she hated all pictures of herself because that she did not look good in...

Sep 25, 2023

House Passes Kennedy’s Tax Bill

Sept. 25, 1963 - The House of Representatives passed the President Kennedy’s tax bill today, 271 to 155. The President, at Billings,...

Sep 25, 2023

President Kennedy Speaks in Billings, Montana

Sept. 25, 1963 - President Kennedy mixed politics and conservation today as he barnstormed westward on his “nonpolitical” tour of the...

Sep 24, 2023

U.S. Senate Votes to Ratify Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

Sept. 24, 1963 - The U.S. Senate approved the nuclear test-ban treaty today. By a vote of 80 to 19, it gave its constitutional advice and...

Sep 23, 2023

France To Fire Cat Into Space

Sept. 23, 1963 - France announced today she would fire a cat into space late next month aboard a rocket launched from the Sahara. At the...

Sep 22, 2023

Civil Rights Protests Spread Throughout Nation

Sept. 22, 1963 - Ten thousand persons in New York City today cheered denunciations of President Kennedy and calls for civil disobedience...

Sep 21, 2023

President Orders McNamara and Gen. Taylor to South Vietnam

Sept. 21, 1963 - President Kennedy today ordered Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara and General Maxwell D. Taylor, chairman of the...

Sep 20, 2023

Cary Grant Joins RFK to Plug Dropout Drive

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

Sep 20, 2023

Mayor Wagner: “No Rift” with President

Sept. 20, 1963 - New York Mayor Robert Wagner (right) said today, after a 20-minute talk with President Kennedy, that “of course” there...

Sep 20, 2023

President Kennedy Speaks at United Nations

Sept. 20, 1963 - President Kennedy (pictured with U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson and Secretary U Thant) suggested today that the U.S....

Sep 19, 2023

JFK Arrives in New York, Mayor Wagner Not There to Greet Him

Sept. 19, 1963 - President Kennedy arrived in New York City tonight to deliver a major address to the U.N. General Assembly at 11:30...

Sep 19, 2023

Khrushchev Invites President Kennedy to Moscow in 1964

Sept. 19, 1963 - The Soviet Union invited President Kennedy (pictured with Nikita Khrushchev in June 1961) and 16 other heads of...

Sep 18, 2023

JFK Delivers Televised Remarks on Tax Cut Bill

Sept. 18, 1963 - President Kennedy appealed tonight for support “in the national interest” of a tax reduction he said was both “insurance...

Sep 18, 2023

Hoffa Boosts Rockefeller

Sept. 18, 1963 - James R. Hoffa, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, said today he hoped Governor Nelson Rockefeller...

Sep 17, 2023

Hundreds Pay Tribute to Bomb Victims in Birmingham

Sept. 17, 1963 - Hundreds of persons paid silent tribute today to the memory of a 14-year-old Negro girl who died during Sunday school...

Sep 17, 2023

Johnson Reports to President on Scandinavian Trip

Sept. 17, 1963 - Vice President Johnson reported to President Kennedy today that his Scandinavian visit had given him “great...

Sep 16, 2023

President Kennedy Issues Statement on Birmingham Church Bombing

Sept. 16, 1963 - President Kennedy issued a statement today that suggested that Governor George Wallace of Alabama was responsible for...