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Mar 3, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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...
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