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The battle between Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy had become a reality -
Dallas has two football teams The Dallas Texans and the Dallas Cowboys.
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The time when JFK was in office
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Republican presidential candidate Richard M. Nixon visits Dallas, to give a speech promoting his campaign.
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JFK visit Dallas following a downtown parade, Kennedy gives speech promoting his campaign
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Vice-President candidate Lyndon B. Johnson jeered by pro-Nixon crowd at a Hotel.
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Sarah T. Hughes becomes first female federal judge in North Texas (great achievement for the time).
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President Kennedy makes a second trip to Dallas, to visit ailing Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn. Air Force One lands at Love Field, and JFK is taken straight to see Rayburn. President departs immediately afterward. -
As the result of a lawsuit brought by a private citizen, the Dallas School District is ordered by a federal court to put in the "stair-step" racial integration of schools (one grade each year until all grades are desegregated).
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Robert F. Kennedy visits Dallas, addressing the Associated Press Managing Editors Conference. In his speech, RFK praises Dallas for its peaceful progress in desegregating public schools.
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Missles were discovered in Cuba and it was nationally annouced by JFK we were willing to use military force to solve this issue.
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Dallas public parks and swimming pools are de-segregated
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Black Civil Rights leader Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. has a speech to promote a poll tax rally
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U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson spat upon and struck over the head with a picket sign outside Memorial Auditorium.
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The day JFK was shot in a street in Dallas and Lyndon B. Johnson took control of office for the last year of the presidents term
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While being transferred to county jail, Lee Harvey Oswald is killed by Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby. Oswald is taken to Parkland Hospital, where he dies.
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On the same day as President Kennedy's funeral in Washington, D.C., Lee Harvey Oswald is buried at Fort Worth's Rose Hill Cemetery.
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