1960s Timeline

Aug. 14, 1963 - Hand in hand, President and Mrs. Kennedy left the hospital today where their third child was born just a week ago. The...

Aug. 14, 1963 - The New York Police Department has chosen Lieutenant Lloyd Sealy (center in 1959) as the first Negro on the New York...

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

Sept. 13, 1963 - The Etowah County, Ala., grand jury refused today to indict Floyd L. Simpson for the murder of William L. Moore...

Aug. 13, 1963 - President Kennedy returned to Cape Cod today to take his wife home from the hospital to their summer home. He brought her...

Aug. 13, 1963 - A 17-year-old Buddhist student monk burned himself to death today. It was the third Buddhist self-immolation since South...

Aug. 13, 1963 - Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara (pictured) gave his “unequivocal support” today to the treaty to outlaw nuclear...

Aug. 12, 1963 - In New Orleans today, 23-year-old Lee H. Oswald, of 4907 Magazine St., was sentenced to pay a fine of $10 or serve ten...

Aug. 12, 1963 - President Kennedy took Caroline and John Jr. to visit their mother again today. Charlie, the children’s Welsh terrier,...

Aug. 11, 1963 - Carrying a small bouquet of garden flowers, a solemn Caroline Kennedy went today with her father, the President, to see...

Aug. 11, 1963 - James Hood (left), a Negro student facing imminent expulsion from the University of Alabama for having criticized its...

Aug. 11, 1963 - Senator Richard Russell (D-Ga.) (pictured top right with Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, Senator J.W. Fulbright, and...

Aug. 11, 1963 - Henry Cabot Lodge (pictured with President Kennedy in 1961), who will take up his new post as U.S. Ambassador to South...

Aug. 10, 1963 - President Kennedy, sorrow etched on his face, buried his infant son, Patrick Bouvier, today after simple services and a...

Aug. 10, 1963 - Rupture of the main heart artery early today ended the life of Senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee (pictured left with...

Aug. 9, 1963 - President Kennedy flew to Hyannis Port, Mass., this morning to join his wife 5½ hours after their premature infant son had...

Aug. 9, 1963 - Secretary of State Dean Rusk talked for 2½ hours today with Premier Khrushchev at Gagra, on the Black Sea. The two men met...

Aug. 9, 1963 - Patrick Bouvier Kennedy is the fifth child of a sitting President to die. Children of John Adams, Thomas Jefferson,...

Aug. 9, 1963 - Tragedy today stalked ceremonies in South Vietnam which had been intended to send retiring U.S. Ambassador Frederick...

Aug. 9, 1963 - The new baby boy of President and Mrs. Kennedy died early today, the White House announced at 4:26 a.m. The baby, born...