The assassinations of Medgar Evers and John F. Kennedy 60 years ago were five months apart.
John McBride, Staff / The ChronicleThe young president’s words, delivered from the Oval Office the night of June 11, 1963, weren’t enough to save the life of the young civil rights leader later pulling into his driveway in Jackson, Miss.
Evers’ murder concluded one of the most significant dates of the civil rights movement. One which began with Alabama Gov. George Wallace attempting to stop the integration of the University of Alabama by infamously “standing in the schoolhouse door,” defying U.S. Deputy Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach, federal marshals and the Alabama National Guard sent by Kennedy.
The speech came the day after Kennedy delivered another of his most famous addresses, his American University commencement speech in which he sought to ease the Cold War tensions with the Soviet Union by calling for negotiations that would lead to the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
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