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Mar 3

Stravinsky Composing “Elegy for John F. Kennedy”

Mar. 3, 1964 - Composer Igor Stravinsky (pictured right in 1962) is writing a work for solo voice and instruments in memory of President...

Mar 3

Twins Integrate Spring Training Camp

Mar. 3, 1964 - The Minnesota Twins, pressured by civil rights groups to end segregated housing of players, moved their baseball training...

Mar 3

Psychiatrist: Ruby Shows No Guilt or Remorse

Mar. 3, 1964 - Jack Ruby shows no signs of guilt or remorse over the killing of Lee Harvey Oswald, a Baltimore psychiatrist has reported....

Mar 3

Viet Cong Steps Up Attacks

Mar. 3, 1964 - Communist gunfire ripped into two South Vietnamese airborne battalions stalking Viet Cong guerrillas near the Cambodian...

Mar 3

Rocky Signs Two Major Crime Bills

Mar. 3, 1964 - Governor Nelson Rockefeller of New York signed his two major crime bills today despite opposition from bar and civil...

Mar 2

New Soviet Atheism Push

Mar. 2, 1964 - The Communist party announced today a renewed campaign designed to eradicate religion from Soviet life. The outline of the...

Mar 1

Senate Wrangling Continues on Civil Rights Bill

Mar. 1, 1964 - The leader of the Southern bloc in the Senate, Richard Russell (D-Ga.), said today that the public accommodations title of...

Dec 31, 2023

President Johnson Assures Vietnam of “Fullest Measure of Support”

Dec. 31, 1963 - President Johnson assured South Vietnam today that the U.S. would continue to offer that country “the fullest measure of...

Dec 29, 2023

An Ebullient President Johnson Gives Out Ten-Gallon Hats

Dec. 29, 1963 - In Stonewall, Texas today, President Johnson perched a ten-gallon Texas hat on the head of West German Chancellor Ludwig...

Dec 29, 2023

Time Magazine Names Dr. Martin Luther King Man of the Year

Dec. 29, 1963 - The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, the civil rights leader who became a symbol of the Negro revolution in 1963, has been...

Dec 28, 2023

President Johnson and West German Chancellor Erhard Hold Cordial Meeting in Texas

Dec. 28, 1963 - President Johnson and Chancellor Ludwig Erhard of West Germany, meeting today at Bergstrom Air Force Base near Austin,...

Dec 27, 2023

President Johnson Prepares To Meet New West German Chancellor

Dec. 27, 1963 - President Johnson made it clear today that the two days of talks he is starting tomorrow with Chancellor Ludwig Erhard of...

Dec 27, 2023

Khrushchev Predicts U.S. Defeat in Vietnam

Dec. 27, 1963 - Premier Khrushchev predicted today that the U.S. would be expelled from South Vietnam with “even less ceremony” than were...

Dec 26, 2023

Former President Truman Holds Forth

Dec. 26, 1963 - Former President Harry S. Truman said today it was too soon for him to formally assess John F. Kennedy’s career in the...

Dec 24, 2023

G.I.s Celebrate Christmas in Vietnam

Dec. 24, 1963 - American fighting men in South Vietnam today took time out from the war against the Communist Viet Cong guerrillas to...

Dec 24, 2023

President Johnson Visits Governor Connally

Dec. 24, 1963 - President Johnson paid calls on two friends and went deer hunting today before he visited his LBJ Ranch. Mr. Johnson’s...

Dec 24, 2023

Freeze-Out Between Truman and Eisenhower Thaws

Dec. 24, 1963 - Former President Harry S. Truman (pictured at President Kennedy’s funeral) said in New York today that he had exchanged...

Dec 23, 2023

Kilduff Tells of Moments after President Kennedy’s Death in Dallas

Dec. 23, 1963 - In a radio interview taped for broadcast today by the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company, Assistant Press Secretary...

Dec 23, 2023

As Official Mourning Period for President Kennedy Ends, Political Speculation Takes Center Stage

Dec. 23, 1963 - The end of the official period of mourning for President Kennedy raised the curtain on politics yesterday, and the...

Dec 21, 2023

Mrs. Kennedy Replaces Prayer Card Photograph

Dec. 21, 1963 - Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy has replaced the serious photograph of the late President on his prayer card with a more...