The violence in Birmingham proved that Kennedy's piecemeal approach to civil rights had failed. Martin Luther King. and cabinet meeting , August 5 , 1965. Courtesy: Library of Congress Elected ...

The presidency of John F. Kennedy (JFK) took place in the context of super-charged international relations: face-offs with ...

On June 11, 1963, President John F. Kennedy addressed the nation on the most pressing domestic issue of the day: the struggle to affirm civil rights for all Americans. His administration had ...

and that was why they authorized the agency’s wiretapping of the civil rights leader ... Kennedy also told Politico that had JFK been elected to a second term, he “would have fired Hoover.” ...

Dr King was assassinated three weeks after the dossier was written A secret FBI dossier on civil rights leader ... relating to the assassination of John F Kennedy released on Friday.