Perhaps no one regarded the events with more anguish than President John Fitzgerald Kennedy. The violence in Birmingham proved that Kennedy's piecemeal approach to civil rights had failed.

Yet his initiatives and reforms for containing the Cold War, increasing civil rights ... Portrait Gallery John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Portrait Gallery John F. Kennedy National Portrait Gallery ...

Newly unredacted documents mostly shed light on C.I.A. sources and methods. The Justice Department is moving to disclose new ...