1960s Timeline

July 30, 1963 - A corporal who knew there was “a bullet marked for me,” a private who urged his family to “pray for peace,” and a...

July 30, 1963 - American schoolchildren are stronger and in better condition now than they were two years ago, President Kennedy’s...

July 29, 1963 - Senator Barry Goldwater declared today that he was more concerned with members of the radical left in Government than...

July 28, 1963 - President Kennedy and most of the numerous members of his family celebrated Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy’s 34th birthday today...

July 28, 1963 - Former Vice President Richard M. Nixon (pictured at the Elysée Presidential Palace in Paris) predicted today that the...

June 27, 1963 - President Kennedy made an unexpected stop at a convent near Wexford, Ireland today to meet his third cousin, Mother...

July 27, 1963 - Actor Marlon Brando marched with 150 demonstrators today for 3 hours in an all-white residential tract in Torrance,...

July 27, 1963 - First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy will celebrate her 34th birthday tomorrow in the manner she likes best — with little fuss...

July 27, 1963 - W. Averell Harriman (left) said today that the conclusion of a treaty to outlaw most nuclear tests had been received in...

July 26, 1963 - President Kennedy, speaking to the nation tonight in a “spirit of hope,” described the treaty for a limited nuclear test...

July 26, 1963 - Dr. Martin Luther King said today a 39-year-old Negro linked by Congressional committees to the Communist movement had...

July 26, 1963 - Premier Khrushchev declared today that the conclusion of a treaty for a partial nuclear test ban had created favorable...

July 26, 1963 - The Mayor of Atlanta appealed to Congress today to pass legislation to eliminate segregation, which he called “slavery’s...

July 25, 1963 - Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy said today the Justice Department had no evidence that Dr. Martin Luther King and...

July 25, 1963 - The United States, the Soviet Union, and Britain concluded today a treaty to prohibit nuclear testing in the atmosphere,...

July 25, 1963 - American armed helicopter pilots in South Vietnam have started taking a full combat role in the war against Communist...

July 24, 1963 - Richard M. Nixon made a surprise two-hour trip into East Berlin tonight. It was the second trip of the day into the...

July 23, 1963 - A film in which President Kennedy and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy discuss Governor George Wallace in connection...

July 23, 1963 - Armed U.S. helicopters inflicted heavy casualties on a Communist guerrilla unit after it attacked two companies of South...

July 21, 1963 - South Vietnamese Government forces inflicted heavy casualties on a well-armed Viet Cong unit in a fierce battle in the...