John F. Kennedy

January 20, 1961 to November 22, 1963

Year

Date

Document Title

 1961

January 20, 1961

Kennedy’s Inaugural Address

 

January 30, 1961

Kennedy’s First Annual Message to Congress

 

February 13, 1961

Kennedy’s Letter to Congress on a Bill to Provide Health Insurance to the Aged

 

February 20, 1961

Kennedy’s Message to Congress on Education

 

March 1, 1961

Kennedy’s Proclamation Establishing the Peace Corps

 

March 1, 1961

Kennedy’s Message to Congress on the Peace Corps

 

March 1, 1961

Kennedy’s Statement on Creating the Peace Corps

 

March 7, 1961

Kennedy’s Statement on Establishing Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity

 

March 9, 1961

Kennedy’s Message to Congress on Proposed National Cultural Center

 

March 13, 1961

Kennedy’s Address for the Diplomatic Corps of Latin America

 

March 14, 1961

Kennedy’s Statement on the Discontinuance of Nuclear Weapon Tests Conference

 

March 28, 1961

Kennedy’s Message to Congress on the Defense Budget

 

April 10, 1961

Kennedy’s Letter to Congress on the National Aeronautics & Space Council

 

April 11, 1961

Kennedy’s Remarks on the First Meeting of the President’s Equal Employment Opportunity Committee

 

April 17, 1961

Stevenson’s First Statement on the Bay of Pigs {excerpt}

 

April 18, 1961

Kennedy’s Message to Khrushchev on Events in Cuba

 

April 18, 1961

Stevenson’s Second Statement on the Bay of Pigs {excerpt}

 

April 20, 1961

Stevenson’s Third Statement on the Bay of Pigs {excerpt}

 

May 5, 1961

Kennedy’s Statement of Flight of Astronaut Shepard

 

May 8, 1961

Kennedy’s Remarks to Astronaut Shepard

 

May 11, 1961

Kennedy’s Letter to the House of Representatives to Combat Juvenile Delinquency

 

May 14, 1961

Kennedy’s Letter to Congress Implementing the 23rd Amendment

 

May 20, 1961

Kennedy’s Statement on “Freedom Riders”

 

May 30, 1961

Kennedy’s Letter to Congress Proposing a Permanent Peace Corps

 

May 31, 1961

Kennedy’s Toast at Dinner in Paris

 

June 6, 1961

Kennedy’s Report on Returning from Europe

 

June 15, 1961

Kennedy’s to Vice President on Communications Satellites

 

July 21, 1961

Kennedy’s Remarks on Expanded Space Program

 

July 21, 1961

Kennedy’s Report on the Berlin Crisis

 

July 25, 1961

Kennedy’s Address on the Berlin Crisis

 

August 15, 1961

Note to Soviet Commandants {excerpt}

 

September 22, 1961

Kennedy’s Remarks on Peace Corps Bill

 

September 25, 1961

Kennedy’s Address before the U.N. General Assembly

 

October 17, 1961

White House Statement on Soviet Plans to Test 50-Megaton Bomb

 

October 24, 1961

Kennedy’s Letter to Diem of Viet-Nam

 

October 30, 1961

White House Statement on Soviet’s Explosion of 50-Megaton Bomb

 

December 15, 1961

Kennedy’s Message to President of Viet-Nam

 

December 15, 1961

Diem’s Letter to President Kennedy

 1962

January 11, 1962

Kennedy’s Second Annual Message to Congress

 

February 2, 1962

Kennedy’s Message to Congress on Public Welfare Programs

 

February 3, 1962

White House Statement on Embargo with Cuba

 

February 5, 1962

Kennedy’s Recorded Message to the People of Viet-Nam

 

February 7, 1962

Kennedy’s Letter to Congress on Communications Satellite Bill

 

February 12, 1962

Kennedy’s Remarks on the Status of Women Commission

 

February 25, 1962

Kennedy’s Message to Khrushchev on Disarmament Negotiations

 

March 2, 1962

Kennedy’s Address “Nuclear Testing & Disarmament”

 

March 7, 1962

Kennedy’s Message to Khrushchev on Joint Outer Space Exploration

 

March 13, 1962

Kennedy’s Message to Congress of Foreign Aid

 

March 14, 1962

Kennedy’s Letter to Rusk on Geneva Disarmament Conference

 

March 26, 1962

Baker v. Carr

 

April 11, 1962

Kennedy’s Statement on National Guard & Reserve Units

 

April 12, 1962

Kennedy’s Statement on Equal Opportunity in Housing

 

May 1, 1962

Kennedy’s Statement on Education Television Act

 

June 20, 1962

Kennedy’s Remarks of Welcome to College Students

 

July 15, 1962

Kennedy’s Statement on Resumption of Disarmament Negotiations

 

August 1, 1962

Kennedy’s Remarks on Foreign Assistance Act

 

August 13, 1962

Kennedy’s Report on the State of the National Economy

 

August 23, 1962

Kennedy’s Statement on Guam & Pacific Islands Trust Territory

 

August 25, 1962

Kennedy’s Letter to Mrs. Roosevelt on the Status of Women

 

August 27, 1962

Twenty-Fourth Amendment to the Constitution

 

September 12, 1962

Kennedy’s Address on the Nation’s Space Effort

 

September 26, 1962

Kennedy’s Remarks on the Atomic Energy Commission Authorization Bill

 

September 30, 1962

Kennedy’s Report on the University of Mississippi Situation

 

October 22, 1962

Kennedy’s Report on Soviet Arms Buildup in Cuba

 

October 23, 1962

Kennedy’s Proclamation for Cuban Blockage

 

October 24, 1962

Khrushchev’s Letter to Kennedy

 

October 27, 1962

Kennedy’s Message to Khrushchev to Remove Missiles from Cuba

 

October 28, 1962

Kennedy’s Message to Khrushchev on the Cuban Crisis

 

October 28, 1962

Kennedy’s Statement on Withdrawal of Missiles from Cuba

 

November 2, 1962

Kennedy’s Remarks on Soviet Missile Bases in Cuba

 

December 4, 1962

Kennedy’s Remarks on the Cuban Crisis & Radio Stations

 

December 28, 1962

Kennedy’s Letter to Khrushchev on Nuclear Testing

 1963

January 14, 1963

Kennedy’s Third Annual Message to Congress

 

February 21, 1963

Kennedy’s Message to Congress on Senior Citizens

 

February 28, 1963

Kennedy’s Message to Congress on Civil Rights

 

March 30, 1963

Kennedy’s Statement on Registration & Voting Participation

 

April 10, 1963

Kennedy’s Letter to Congress on National Service Corps

 

April 16, 1963

King’s Letter from Birmingham Jail {excerpt}

 

May 12, 1963

Kennedy’s Remarks on Renewed Racial Strife in Birmingham

 

May 13, 1963

Kennedy’s Telegram to Governor Wallace

 

June 10, 1963

Equal Pay Act of 1963

 

June 10, 1963

Kennedy’s Commencement Address at American University

 

June 10, 1963

Kennedy’s Remarks on the Equal Pay Act

 

June 10, 1963

Kennedy’s Telegram to Governor Wallace on Negro Admission to University of Alabama

 

June 11, 1963

Kennedy’s Report on Civil Rights

 

June 15, 1963

Kennedy’s Telegram to Governor Wallace on Alabama National Guard

 

June 17, 1963

Abington School Dist. v. Schempp

 

June 19, 1963

Kennedy’s Message to Congress on Civil Rights & Job Opportunities

 

June 26, 1963

Kennedy’s Remarks in Berlin

 

July 4, 1963

Kennedy’s Letter to Congress to Strengthen the Peace Corps

 

July 26, 1963

Kennedy’s Address on the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

 

August 5, 1963

Test Ban Treaty

 

August 8, 1963

Kennedy’s Message to Congress on the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

 

August 28, 1963

Kennedy’s Statement of the March on Washington

 

August 28, 1963

King’s Speech “I Have a Dream”

 

September 9, 1963

Kennedy’s Statement on Desegregation in Alabama Schools

 

September 16, 1963

Kennedy’s Statement on Birmingham in Bombing

 

September 19, 1963

Kennedy’s Statement on Bombing in Birmingham

 

September 20, 1963

Kennedy’s Address before the U.N. General Assembly

 

October 2, 1963

White House Statement on Mission to South Viet-Nam

 

October 7, 1963

Kennedy’s Remarks on the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

 

October 29, 1963

Kennedy’s Statement on Civil Rights Bill

 

November 21, 1963

Kennedy’s Remarks on Dedication of Aerospace Medical Health Center

 

November 22, 1963

Kennedy’s Remarks to the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce

Last updated August 03, 2006