Former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu receives JFK Profile in Courage
JFK's assassination capped a violent year in America.
The assassination of Medgar Evers in June 1963 challenged Kennedy's profile in courage. He responded by embracing Martin Luther King's civil rights agenda in Congress for the first time. It was a bold, if belated, move, and it further enraged the visceral, violent opposition to Kennedy's presidency on…
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