FOREIGN OFFICE FILES: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Series One: USA - Politics & Diplomacy, 1960-1974
(Public Record Office Classes FO 371 and FCO 7: American Department - United States)

Part 2: The Lyndon B Johnson Years, 1964-1968
(PRO Class FO 371/174260-174346, 179557-179622 & 184995-185056 and PRO Class FCO 7/738-884)

These British Foreign Office files provide a wealth of detail on world events during the Johnson administration. Scholars can examine:

• Domestic legislation and Lyndon B Johnson’s determination to address the problems of poverty and race relations which were threatening to overwhelm American society. 
• The escalation of the Vietnam War and the ever increasing involvement of American combat troops.
• US policy on China.
• The American civil rights movement and federal attempts to end segregation.
• Documents on the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy.
• The Space Race.
• The founding of the Black Panther Party in 1966.
• Middle East policy and the Arab-Israeli War of 1967.
• Relations with the Soviet Union.
• Reactions to the ‘Prague Spring’ and subsequent Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968.
• Cultural and intellectual developments.
• Files on Robert Kennedy, Senator Fulbright, Senator Goldwater,
  Vice-President Humprey, Robert NcNamarra and many other key individuals.
• Racial issues and disturbances, the Civil Rights movement, the Black Power Movement and Malcolm X.
• Anti-Vietnam war demonstrations.