John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Chicago police move in to knock down a burning cross in front of a home, after an African-American family moved into a previously all white neighborhood, August 3, 1963. The civil rights movement in America was one of the historic trends transforming the

Here's what else was going on in the world when Kennedy was assassinated

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Global Politics

1963 was a momentous year in many ways, from the Beatles to James Bond, and from African independence to Vietnam.

Here's what else was going on in the world when Kennedy was assassinated
Lifelong Forest  Row resident Harold Waters got very close to President Kennedy to take this photo in June 1963.

A tiny British town has its own story of JFK

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Global Politics
A tiny British town has its own story of JFK
A declassified memo documenting plans for Castro to meet secretly with a US envoy. It's dated the very day of JFK's assassination.

How Kennedy's assassination ended hopes for a reconciliation with Castro

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How Kennedy's assassination ended hopes for a reconciliation with Castro

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