In 1958, in response to an alarming uptick in xenophobic chatter, the Anti-Defamation League asked then-Senator John F. Kennedy to write about America’s melting-pot strengths and the need for ...

Mark Stern, John F. Kennedy and Civil Rights: From Congress to the Presidency, Presidential Studies Quarterly, Vol. 19, No. 4, Foreign Policy, Human Rights, and ...

On Thursday, May 25, 1961, at 12:30 p.m., President John F. Kennedy took the podium in the U.S. House of Representatives, addressing the full House and Senate to issue his famous call that “this ...

President John F Kennedy told Congress on May 25, 1961: "I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon." ...

Kennedy advisers talked about a Rooseveltian 100 days of dramatic success with Congress. But before the azaleas had bloomed in the White House garden, the Roosevelt image went by the boards—and ...

Oliver Stone on Tuesday called for the reopening of the investigation into the assassination of John F. Kennedy, as the director noted the impact that his 1991 movie JFK had on the release of records.

President John F. Kennedy was apoplectic. An article in The New York Times on July 26, 1962, told readers that the Soviet Union had begun reinforcing some intercontinental ballistic missile sites ...

The CIA under John F. Kennedy" told USA TODAY that he wasn’t expecting any bombshells, given that virtually all of the relevant agencies – including the CIA – had promised to turn over ...