1960s Timeline

Mar. 23, 1964 - One thousand Negroes cheered Malcolm X last night when he declared: “It’s time for you and me to let the Government know...

Mar. 23, 1964 - Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy said today that $5 million, or half the sum required, had been raised for the John...

Mar. 22, 1964 - Harry Belafonte (pictured right with Sidney Poitier), who has been turning down guest appearances, will be on television...

Mar. 22, 1964 - Walter Reuther, president of the United Automobile Workers, today brushed aside a proposal that the union endorse...

Mar. 19, 1964 - Pierre Salinger (left) resigned today as White House press secretary. It is expected that he will seek the Democratic...

Mar. 18, 1964 - Senator Barry Goldwater, castigating President Johnson and calling for victory in South Vietnam, wound up a successful...

Mar. 17, 1964 - “I appreciate it, but I think it’s out of place.” In soft-spoken tones, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy was reacting...

Mar. 17, 1964 - Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy placed a sprig of shamrock on her husband’s grave in Arlington National Cemetery today. She...

Mar. 17, 1964 - Republicans suggested today that much of the Johnson Administration’s planned war on poverty would merely duplicate...

Mar. 16, 1964 - Unsupported by three major Negro organizations and by a Puerto Rican group which backed the Feb. 3 school boycott in New...

Mar. 16, 1964 - President Johnson placed his controversial billion-dollar war on poverty on the Congressional firing line today and...

Mar. 15, 1964 - President Johnson tonight named as his major domestic objectives an attack on the causes of poverty and passage of the...

Mar. 15, 1964 - New York City Police Commissioner Michael Murphy warned civil rights leaders today that he would not allow them to “turn...

Mar. 15, 1964 - The most extensive program of Negro education and political action seen in the South was outlined for Mississippi today...

Mar. 15, 1964 - Communist ground fire downed a U.S. helicopter and a spotter plane in separate actions in South Vietnam this weekend. Six...

Mar. 15, 1964 - Dr. Martin Luther King predicted yesterday there would be enormous civil rights demonstrations throughout the country in...

Mar. 14, 1964 - Senator Hubert Humphrey told 900 New Jersey Democrats in Atlantic City, N.J., today that Congress would pass the civil...

Mar. 14, 1964 - Leaders of the civil rights movement in the North and South are weighing the significance of the decision last week by...

Mar. 13, 1964 - Senator Barry Goldwater suggested today that Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge should report to a joint session of Congress on...

Mar. 13, 1964 - Defense Secretary Robert McNamara recommended to President Johnson today a program of increased operations against the...