That bill remained under consideration in late 1963 when Kennedy embarked on his trip to Texas. The other issue was the Cold War, which Kennedy judged to be his most important challenge. His inaugural ...

More than six decades after President John F. Kennedy was gunned down in Dallas, newly unsealed government documents are ...

Here are three key things that you may have missed in history class: Saturday, Oct. 27, 1962, "was not only the most dangerous moment of the Cold War," Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., a senior Kennedy ...

Kennedy’s personal diplomacy helped tilt Conakry from Moscow ... as the United States chose to embrace the binary thinking of Cold War competition and support anti-Soviet actors instead of trying to ...

civil rights were not a major concern for the Kennedy administration. Rather, Cold War politics were front and center. Staunchly anti-communist, John F. Kennedy used his inaugural address to speak ...

Discover how the Cold War turned hot for the first time ... Audio: JFK and the Celebrity Presidency - One of the keys to John F Kennedy's hold on the American people was his ability to deliver ...

Discover how the Cold War turned hot for the first time ... Audio: JFK and the Celebrity Presidency - One of the keys to John F Kennedy's hold on the American people was his ability to deliver ...