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Timeline of the John F. Kennedy presidency (1963)
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The following is a [[timeline]] of the [[Presidency of John F. Kennedy]] from January 1, 1963, to November 22, 1963, upon his [[Assassination of John F. Kennedy|assassination and death]]
== January ==
[[File:JFK delivers State of the Union Address, 14 January 1963.jpg|thumb|250px|'''January 14:''' President Kennedy delivers his third State of the Union address.]]
* '''January 10''' – Kennedy meets with President-elect [[Juan Bosch (politician)|Juan Bosch]] of the [[Dominican Republic]].
* '''January 11''' – Kennedy meets with [[United States Secretary of Labor|Labor Secretary]] [[W. Willard Wirtz]] and [[AFL-CIO]] President [[George Meany]].
* '''January 12''' – Kennedy announces the appointment of [[David L. Lawrence]] as Chairman of the President's Committee on Equal Opportunity in Housing. Kennedy also appoints Phil N. Bornstein as [[Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for Housing|Federal Housing Commissioner]].
* '''January 14''' – Kennedy delivers his third (and final) State of the Union address.
* '''January 31''' - JFK selects [[Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr.]] for United States Undersecretary of Commerce.<ref></ref> RFK denies government pressure is preventing Teamster union officials from getting their required bonds.<ref></ref> JFK sends a message to Capitol Hill for the government to pay the cotton trade to increase sales of domestic cotton alongside the government paying the feed grain and dairy farmers to not produce.<ref></ref>
== February ==
* '''February 10''' – The President and the First Lady attend the play ''[[Beyond the Fringe]]'' in [[New York City]].
* '''February 20''' – In a letter to [[Attorney General of the United States|Attorney General]] [[Robert F. Kennedy]], President Kennedy denies clemency to Victor Feguer, a convicted murderer.<ref></ref>
== March ==
* '''March 15''' – [[Victor Feguer]] is executed after Kennedy's February 20 denial of clemency. The execution marks the last [[Capital punishment by the United States federal government|federal execution]] until the execution of [[Timothy McVeigh]] on June 11, 2001.
*'''March 18–20''' – Kennedy makes the seventh international trip of his presidency, travelling to [[San José, Costa Rica|San José]], [[Costa Rica]], where he attends the Conference of Presidents of the Central American Republics.<ref name=JFKtravels/>
== April ==
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== May ==
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== June ==
[[File:JFK speech lch bin ein berliner 1.jpg|thumb|right|250px|'''June 26:''' President Kennedy delivers his now-famous ''[[Ich bin ein Berliner]]'' speech.]]
* '''June 10''' – Kennedy delivers the [[American University speech|commencement address at American University]] in Washington, D.C.
* '''June 11''' – Kennedy delivers the [[Civil Rights Address]] in the aftermath of the [[Birmingham campaign]] and recent [[Stand in the Schoolhouse Door]] incident and further calls for legislation to enact a [[Civil Rights Act of 1964|civil rights bill]].
*'''June 23 – July 2''' – Kennedy makes the eighth international trip of his presidency.<ref name=JFKtravels/>
**'''June 23–25''' – Visits [[Cologne]], [[Frankfurt]], and [[Wiesbaden]], [[West Germany]]; also holds meetings with West German Chancellor [[Konrad Adenauer]] and other officials.
** '''June 26''' – Visits [[West Berlin]] and delivers his now-famous ''[[Ich bin ein Berliner]]'' speech advocating [[representative democracy]] and [[capitalism]] as a replacement for [[communism|communist]] regimes around the world.
**'''June 26–29''' – Visits [[Dublin]], [[Wexford]], [[Cork (city)|Cork]], [[Galway]], and [[Limerick]], [[Ireland]]; also addresses the [[Parliament of Ireland|Irish Parliament]].
**'''June 29–30''' – Travels to the [[United Kingdom]] for an informal visit with British Harold Macmillan at his [[Birch Grove|home]] in [[West Sussex]], [[England]].
== July ==
**'''July 1–2''' – Travels to [[Naples]] and [[Rome]], [[Italy]], where he meets with Italian President [[Antonio Segni]], and [[NATO]] officials.
**'''July 2''' – Has an audience with the newly elected [[Pope Paul VI]] at the [[Apostolic Palace]] in [[Vatican City]].
*'''July 24''' – President Kennedy meets with a group of [[Boys Nation]] senators, including future U.S. President [[Bill Clinton]], at the White House.<ref></ref>
== August ==
*'''August 7''' – [[Patrick Bouvier Kennedy]], President and Mrs. Kennedy's third child, is born (five-and-a-half weeks prematurely) at the [[Otis Air Force Base Hospital]] in [[Bourne, Massachusetts]]. Shortly after birth, he develops symptoms of hyaline membrane disease, now called [[infant respiratory distress syndrome]].
*'''August 9''' – Patrick Bouvier Kennedy dies at [[Children's Hospital Boston|Boston Children's Hospital]].<ref></ref>
* '''August 28''' – The [[March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom]] occurs in [[Washington, D.C.]], culminating in the now-famous "[[I Have A Dream]]" speech by [[Martin Luther King, Jr.|Martin Luther King]]. Estimates of the number of marchers range from 200,000 to 300,000.
* Dr. Martin Luther King Meets with President Kennedy, along aside other civil rights activists.
== September ==
* '''September 20''' – Address before the United Nations General Assembly (JFK's second) stating various specific recommendations to "move the world to a just and lasting peace".
* '''September 28''' – Dedication of Clair A. Hill Whiskeytown Dam just outside Redding, California in Shasta County. Kennedy touted the reservoir as the largest of the Trinity County Dams" that "could be used to benefit the farms and lands further south"
== October ==
[[File:President Kennedy signs Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, 07 October 1963.jpg|thumb|250px|'''October 7:''' President Kennedy signs the [[Partial Test Ban Treaty]], a major milestone in early [[nuclear disarmament]] in the [[Nuclear Age]].]]
* '''October 3''' – President Kennedy visits [[Cleburne County, Arkansas]], to dedicate the [[Greers Ferry Dam]]. This is the last public appearance before he was shot in Dallas.
* '''October 7''' – President Kennedy signs the [[Partial Test Ban Treaty]], prohibiting all [[nuclear weapons testing]] providing an exception for [[underground nuclear testing]] only.
* '''October 8''' – President Kennedy announces an agreement with the [[Soviet Union]] to open negotiations for the sale of American wheat.
== November ==
[[File:Lyndon B. Johnson taking the oath of office, November 1963.jpg|thumb|250px|'''November 22:''' President Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in aboard Air Force One, roughly 90 minutes after Kennedy's death.]]
* '''November 14:''' President Kennedy attends a dedication ceremony at the border of [[Maryland]] and [[Delaware]] marking the completion of the [[Northeast Expressway (Baltimore)|Northeast Expressway]] and the [[Delaware Turnpike]], which together form part of [[Interstate 95]] and provided a limited-access route between [[Baltimore]] and the approach to the [[Delaware Memorial Bridge]].<ref name=mn111563></ref> Both roads were renamed the John F. Kennedy Memorial Highway a month later following his assassination.<ref name=mn121763></ref>
* '''November 18''' – Kennedy traveled to Tampa, Florida. There, he visited the military's Strike Command Headquarters, attended a luncheon at the officer's club, made a speech at the Florida Chamber of Commerce, and another to the United Steelworker's Union.
* '''November 21''' – President Kennedy asks his economic advisers to prepare the [[War on Poverty]] for 1964. Less than two months after the President's assassination, President Johnson introduces the legislation in his first State of the Union address on January 8, 1964, and two of the major pieces of related legislation – the [[Economic Opportunity Act of 1964]] and the [[Social Security Act of 1965]] – are signed into law on August 20, 1964, and July 30, 1965, respectively.
* '''November 22''' – President Kennedy and [[Governor of Texas|Texas Governor]] [[John Connally]] are shot at 12:30 p.m. [[Central Time Zone (North America)|CST]] (18:30 [[Coordinated Universal Time|UTC]]) in [[Dealey Plaza]], [[Dallas]], [[Texas]]. They are rushed to [[Parkland Memorial Hospital]], where Kennedy is pronounced dead at 1:00 p.m. CST (19:00 UTC). [[Lee Harvey Oswald]] is arrested and charged with the murder. Oswald is shot and killed two days later by nightclub owner [[Jack Ruby]].
=== Aftermath ===
* '''November 22''' – Vice President [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] [[United States presidential line of succession|succeeds to the Presidency]] and is sworn in aboard [[Air Force One]].
* '''November 23''' – Kennedy lies in repose in the White House East Room for a period of 24 hours. At 4:45 pm, President Johnson issues [[wikisource:Proclamation 3561|Proclamation 3561]], declaring November 25, the day of the funeral service, to be a [[National day of mourning#State officials|national day of mourning]].
* '''November 24''' – Kennedy [[Lying in state#United States|lies in state]] for a period of 18 hours. NBC broadcasts live uninterrupted coverage of people passing through the [[United States Capitol rotunda|Capitol rotunda]] during the overnight hours.
* '''November 25''' – Kennedy's funeral service is held. Representatives from over 90 countries attend the ceremony. President Kennedy is laid to rest at [[Arlington National Cemetery]]. Upon the request of the now-former First Lady [[Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis|Jacqueline Kennedy]] on the day before, an [[eternal flame]], inspired by the [[Arc de Triomphe#The Unknown Soldier|Tomb of the Unknown Soldier]] at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, known later as the [[John F. Kennedy Eternal Flame]], is set up by the [[United States Army Corps of Engineers]], and first lit by Mrs. Kennedy.
[[File:JFKeastRoomnov23'63.jpg|thumb|400px|center|'''November 23:''' Kennedy lies in repose in the [[East Room (White House)|East Room]] of the White House.]]
== References ==
== External links ==
* [https://ift.tt/2Y2FhBW Miller Center Kennedy Presidential Timeline]
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[[Category:United States presidency timelines|Kennedy, John F.]]
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