RFK Reportedly Has Heated Discussion with Prominent Negroes
May 25, 1963 - Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy is reported to have had a heated discussion with a group of prominent Negroes yesterday...
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- May 22
RFK Pushes Domestic Peace Corps
May 22, 1963 - Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy led off the Administration’s fight for a domestic peace corps today by pointing to...
- May 12
🚨President Kennedy Activates Federal Troops in Alabama
🚨May 12, 1963 - President Kennedy tonight dispatched Federal troops to bases near Birmingham, Ala., for use if racial violence breaks...
- May 8
President Kennedy Sees Possible Settlement in Birmingham
May 8, 1963 - President Kennedy said today that business leaders in Birmingham, Ala., had pledged “substantial steps” to begin to meet...
- Apr 26
Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy Visits Atlanta
Apr. 26, 1963 - Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, visiting Atlanta on Confederate Memorial Day, praised progress made in Georgia and...
- Apr 25
New School Desegregation Crisis Approaching in Alabama
Apr. 25, 1963 - A school desegregation crisis drew nearer today in Alabama despite a conference between Attorney General Robert F....
- Apr 25
Attorney General Kennedy Guarded Closely in Alabama
Apr. 25, 1963 - Fifty state troopers armed with nightsticks, other state policemen in plain clothes, two dozen FBI agents, and a...
- Apr 24
Robert F. Kennedy Prepares for Alabama Visit
Apr. 24, 1963 - Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy said tonight that neither politics nor a defiant Governor George C. Wallace would...
- Apr 13
Belafonte Asks JFK and RFK for Help in Birmingham
Apr. 13, 1963 - President Kennedy and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy were urged in telegrams today to act immediately “to end the...
- Apr 1
Hoffa Hits Robert Kennedy
Apr. 1, 1963 - U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy (pictured left in 1958) is a “spoiled young millionaire” who is using the...
- Mar 1
RFK: No Plans To Run for President in 1968
Mar. 1, 1963 - Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy replied “emphatically not” when asked today if he were planning to run for President in...
- Feb 28
Hoffa Again Blasts Attorney General
Feb. 28, 1963 - Teamsters president James R. Hoffa (pictured) again blasted U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy today and said the...
- Feb 13
Attorney General Sees Progress in War on Organized Crime
Feb. 13, 1963 - Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy told a Los Angeles press conference today that, although the Justice Department has...
- Feb 13
Hoffa Accuses Attorney General of “Personal Vendetta”
Feb. 12, 1963 - James R. Hoffa, President of the Teamsters Union, accused Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy today of carrying on a...
- Feb 6
Attorney General’s Wife Enjoys Ice Capades
Feb. 6, 1963 - Pictured below, six-year-old Courtney Kennedy, with her eyes fixed on the Ice Capade spectacle in front of her and a...
- Jan 24
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 23
Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy’s Wife Ethel Expecting 8th Child
Jan. 23, 1963 - Mrs. Ethel Kennedy, wife of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, is expecting her eighth child sometime in July. Her...
- Jan 21
Robert Kennedy Speaks Out on James Meredith
Jan. 21, 1963 - Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy (left) said today that even if James Meredith (right) left the University of...
- Jan 10
Attorney General Hits Subversive Group
Jan. 10, 1963 - Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy asked the Subversive Activities Control Board today to order Advance, a New York City...
- Dec 25, 2022
Details Emerge on Bay of Pigs Prisoner Swap
Dec. 25, 1962 - General Lucius D. Clay, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, and others raised almost $3 million in cash this week to make...
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