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John F. Kennedy Administration (1961–1963)

Note: The volumes listed below contain at least one document from the period of this presidential administration; view and search within the available documents. The Foreign Relations series was organized by year for the volumes covering 1861–1951, triennially for 1952–1963, and by presidential administration for 1964 onward—with some exceptions.

    Volumes are grouped into Regular and Retrospective categories.

    Regular volumes

    1961–1963

    1. Vietnam, 1961 (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    2. Vietnam, 1962 (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    3. Vietnam, January–August 1963 (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    4. Vietnam, August–December 1963 (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    5. Soviet Union (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    6. Kennedy-Khrushchev Exchanges (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    7. Arms Control and Disarmament (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    8. Arms Control; National Security Policy; Foreign Economic Policy (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    9. National Security Policy (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    10. Foreign Economic Policy (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    11. Cuba, January 1961–September 1962 (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    12. American Republics; Cuba 1961–1962; Cuban Missile Crisis and Aftermath (Published and available in Full Text)
    13. Cuban Missile Crisis and Aftermath (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    14. American Republics (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    15. Western Europe and Canada (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    16. Western Europe; Berlin
    17. Berlin Crisis, 1961–1962 (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    18. Berlin Crisis, 1962–1963 (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    19. Eastern Europe; Cyprus; Greece; Turkey (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    20. Near East, 1961–1962 (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    21. Near East; Congo; Africa
    22. Near East, 1962–1963 (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    23. South Asia (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    24. Congo Crisis (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    25. Africa (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    26. Northeast Asia (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    27. Northeast Asia; Laos
    28. Southeast Asia (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    29. Laos Crisis (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)
    30. Organization of Foreign Policy; Information Policy; United Nations; Scientific Matters (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)

    Retrospective volumes

    1917–1972

    1. Public Diplomacy, 1961–1963 (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)

    1964–1968

    1. Congo, 1960–1968 (Published and available in Full Text, Ebook)