1960s Timeline

Aug. 8, 1963 - At the Boston Children’s Medical Center tonight, President Kennedy’s one-day-old son rallied after a crisis this afternoon...

Aug. 7, 1963 - The Kennedys’ newest child, Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, is having trouble breathing, but Pierre Salinger, White House press...

Aug. 7, 1963 - The newborn son of President Kennedy was rushed to the Boston Children’s Medical Center tonight for treatment of a...

Aug. 7, 1963 - A second son, Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, was born to President and Mrs. Kennedy at Otis Air Force Base on Cape Cod today....

Aug. 6, 1963 - President Kennedy and other national leaders paid final tribute today to Philip Graham, publishing executive. About 2,000...

Aug. 6, 1963 - Senator Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.) asserted today that Governor Nelson Rockefeller (R-N.Y.) was using “the old Democratic...

Aug. 5, 1963 - Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, who is 64 years old, married Joan Martin, a 23-year-old Government worker, in a...

Aug. 5, 1963 - Former President Eisenhower returned to Normandy today, 19 years and 2 months after D-Day, and he said this time he would...

Aug. 5, 1963 - To the astonishment of the White House, the four “pupniks” born to Charlie, Caroline Kennedy’s Welsh Terrier, and...

Aug. 5, 1963 - The foreign ministers of the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union signed a nuclear test ban treaty today at...

Aug. 4, 1963 - A Communist North Korean raiding party, using whistles like pheasant calls to guide their attack, hit an American outpost...

Aug. 4, 1963 - President Kennedy went to church this morning in Hyannis Port, Mass., and took along his 5-year-old daughter Caroline....

Aug. 3, 1963 - Philip L. Graham (pictured right in 1961), president and CEO of The Washington Post and chairman of the board of Newsweek...

Aug. 3, 1963 - Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu, sister-in-law of South Vietnam’s President Ngo Dinh Diem, accused Buddhist leaders today of treason,...

Aug. 2, 1963 - Senator J.W. Fulbright (pictured), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, characterized Senator Barry...

Aug. 2, 1963 - There is one White House visitor President Kennedy’s two youngsters (pictured with nurse Maud Shaw) will be looking for...

Aug. 2, 1963 - An American who refused repatriation after his release as a prisoner of war in Korea 10 years ago said today he was...

Aug. 2, 1963 - President Kennedy greeted 100 members of Girls’ Nation today and avoided any controversy by telling them merely that they...

Aug. 1, 1963 - Following are some highlights of President Kennedy’s news conference today: Nuclear Testing — The President expressed...

Aug. 1, 1963 - President Kennedy welcomed today an apparent slackening in Negro demonstrations in some areas. However, he warned that the...