Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Just weeks before John F. Kennedy was elected president in 1960, the Democratic candidate’s campaign worked behind the scenes to ...
When Martin Luther King Jr. was imprisoned for a traffic violation in 1960, he appealed to presidential nominee Richard Nixon to help with his release. Fearing he would lose votes in the South, Nixon ...
Just weeks before John F. Kennedy was elected president in 1960, the Democratic candidate’s campaign worked behind the scenes to free Martin Luther King Jr. from a Georgia prison after the civil ...