1960s Timeline

Dec. 4, 1963 - Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy returned to his desk at the Justice Department today, but he did not say how long he...

Dec. 4, 1963 - Mayor Robert Wagner (pictured right Nov. 23) announced today that he would urge the New York City Council to change the...

Dec. 4, 1963 - Malcolm X, national spokesman for the Black Muslim movement, was suspended today by the Nation of Islam because of a...

Dec. 3, 1963 - An FBI report on the assassination of President Kennedy concludes that there was no conspiracy between Lee Harvey Oswald,...

Dec. 3, 1963 - Princess Grace of Monaco wept today when she visited the late President Kennedy’s grave in Arlington National Cemetery....

Dec. 2, 1963 - A good deal of information has now come to light indicating that Lee Harvey Oswald, the presumed assassin of President...

Dec. 2, 1963 - The House of Representatives rushed through a bill today to provide temporary secretarial help, free mailing privileges,...

Dec. 1, 1963 - Malcolm X, national spokesman for the Nation of Islam, today characterized the assassination of President Kennedy as an...

Dec. 1, 1963 - Lee Harvey Oswald was a “loner” who did not have friends in the Marines, a Milwaukee man who served with him said today....

Nov. 30, 1963 - Lee Harvey Oswald (pictured at the Bronx Zoo in 1953), accused assassin of President Kennedy, underwent a court-ordered...

Nov. 30, 1963 - The Soviet Union, in an unusual demonstration of cooperation, turned over to the State Department today documents it...

Nov. 29, 1963 - President Johnson created a special commission tonight to investigate the assassination of President Kennedy. He...

Nov. 28, 1963 - Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy delayed her trip to the Kennedy family’s gathering today while she paid a morning visit to the...

Nov. 28, 1963 - Columbia Pictures has canceled the London world premiere of its movie “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying...

Nov. 27, 1963 - Premier Fidel Castro of Cuba said tonight that the Dallas nightclub operator Jack Ruby probably killed Lee Harvey Oswald...

Nov. 27, 1963 - The first Southerner to become President since Woodrow Wilson called today for the “earliest possible passage” of a civil...

Nov. 27, 1963 - Vaughn Meader (pictured last year), who won fame with his spoof of President Kennedy, has decided that he will never do...

Nov. 27, 1963 - On the blackboard in a second-grade classroom, in large letters, were printed the words “terrible,” “assassinated,”...

Nov. 27, 1963 - Lee Harvey Oswald (pictured distributing pro-Castro leaflets in New Orleans in August), accused assassin of President...

Nov. 27, 1963 - The man who received $25,000 for his color movie films of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination gave the entire sum...