President Promotes 50-Mile Hike
Feb. 5, 1963 - At President Kennedy’s suggestion, 20 Marine officers will attempt a 50-mile hike next week. The exercise, to be conducted...
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Feb 5, 2023
President Kennedy Forms Plan to Combat Mental Illness and Disability
Feb. 5, 1963 - President Kennedy outlined today a new approach to mental illness using “new medical, scientific, and social tools and...
Feb 5, 2023
Mrs. Kennedy Enjoys Broadway Play
Feb. 5, 1963 - Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy (pictured with Prince Stanislas Radziwill, Princess Lee Radziwill, and Clayton Fritshie] spent the...
Feb 1, 2023
President Kennedy Receives B’nai B’rith Award
Feb. 1, 1963 - President Kennedy received last night the 1963 America’s Democratic Legacy Award, presented annually by the...
Jan 31, 2023
Boston Celtics (Minus Bill Russell) Meet President Kennedy
Jan. 31, 1963 - The Boston Celtics, except for Bill Russell, met President Kennedy yesterday. Teammates said Russell did not know that...
Jan 31, 2023
JFK Presents General Norstad With American Heart Association Award
Jan. 31, 1963 - General Lauris Norstad (pictured right earlier this month) received from President Kennedy today the American Heart...
Jan 29, 2023
President Kennedy Mourns Loss of Robert Frost
Jan. 29, 1963 - President Kennedy said today the death of Robert Frost “leaves a vacancy in the American spirit.” In a statement, the...
Jan 29, 2023
Britain Will Not Enter European Common Market, De Gaulle Blamed
Jan. 29, 1963 - Sixteen months of negotiations for British entry into the European Common Market ended today in failure and bitterness....
Jan 24, 2023
Cubans Insist Air Cover Was Promised for ’61 Bay of Pigs Invasion
Jan. 24, 1963 - Despite denials by President Kennedy, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, and Col. José Perez-San Roman, brigade...
Jan 24, 2023
JFK: There Were No Plans for Air Cover for Bay of Pigs Invasion in 1961
Jan. 24, 1963 - President Kennedy (pictured last month at an Orange Bowl ceremony for former Cuban invasion prisoners) insisted today...
Jan 24, 2023
JFK Hopes Meredith Will Stay at Ole Miss
Jan. 24, 1963 - President Kennedy said today he would be sorry if James Meredith (pictured last year), a Negro student, decided to leave...
Jan 24, 2023
President Speaks Out on Cuba
Jan. 24, 1963 - President Kennedy said today that one Russian ship has been detected delivering arms to Cuba since the Cuban crisis, but...
Jan 23, 2023
Senator Goldwater Calls for Bay of Pigs Investigation
Jan. 23, 1963 - Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater (left) introduced a resolution today calling for an investigation by the Senate armed...
Jan 20, 2023
Experts Predict Kennedy Victory Over Rockefeller in 1964 Presidential Election
Jan. 20, 1963 - The optimistic tone of the President’s State of the Union message was in part a political necessity, but there is little...
Jan 20, 2023
Khrushchev Bends on Nuclear Inspections
Jan. 20, 1963 - Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev (pictured with President Kennedy in 1961) has agreed to permit two or three on-site...
Jan 19, 2023
Sweeping Victory Predicted for Kennedy-Johnson Ticket in 1964
Jan. 19, 1963 - Democrats led by Vice President Johnson brushed aside domestic differences today to hail party unity behind President...
Jan 19, 2023
President Kennedy to Visit California this Spring
Jan. 19, 1963 - President Kennedy (pictured at the 1960 Democratic Convention) is planning to fly to California in April to inspect...
Jan 18, 2023
President Celebrates Second Anniversary of Inauguration
Jan. 18, 1963 - In Washington D.C. tonight, President Kennedy told Democrats that some day America will reach the top of the hill and “I...
Jan 17, 2023
Ted Sorenson Talks Democratic Prospects in 1964
Jan. 17, 1963 - Theodore C. Sorenson (pictured in 1960), President Kennedy’s special counsel, told Democratic state officials today that...
Jan 16, 2023
Jan. 16, 1963 - JFK Welcoming Remarks to Prime Minister Fanfani of Italy
Jan. 16, 1963 - Here are President John F. Kennedy’s welcoming remarks to Prime Minister Amintore Fanfani of Italy upon arrival at the...
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