The reform mayor John Vliet Lindsay burst on the stage in 1965, determined to slay whatever dragons were plaguing New York. He departed eight years later, a symbol of unfulfilled promise.

The files not only cover John Lindsay's time working for the DOJ in the mid-1950s, but also his time as Congressman, mayor of New York from 1966 through 1973, and his failed 1972 presidential bid.

By 1972, John Lindsay was tired, so he ran for president. After a decent showing in the Arizona primary, Lindsay headed to Florida, where he never gained any traction and finished in fifth place.

The blizzard of 1969 not only paralyzed New York City for three days, but it also nearly ended Mayor John Lindsay’s political career. February 9, 1969 was supposed to be a gloomy but quiet ...

Lindsay pushed for integrated housing in white neighborhoods, only to spark a firestorm of protest. When he switched to the Democratic Party and ran for president in 1972, the mayor drew little ...

Lindsay has challenged this Irish barony in behalf of the city’s two fastest-growing and most disadvantaged minorities, the 1.1 million Negroes and the 730,000 Puerto Ricans.

With New York City facing enormous challenges, this year’s mayoral candidates should think big and swing for the fences like Mayor John Lindsay did, writes Errol Louis.

Lindsay was a very polarizing figure,” said Joseph Viteritti, a professor at Hunter College and the editor of “Summer in the City: John Lindsay, New York, and the American Dream.” “There ...

Thank you, John Lindsay. Robert Shrum, political consultant and USC professor; Lindsay speechwriter: In the fall of 1970, inmates seized the city’s jails, and guards were held hostage.

John Lindsay, a Newsweek magazine correspondent who for more than 20 years was one of the country`s best-known political reporters, has died. He was 67. Mr. Lindsay, who died Wednesday, reported on… ...

She was 77. The cause was cancer, said her daughter Margaret Picotte of Florida. Mrs. Lindsay lived in Hilton Head, S.C. John Lindsay, who was mayor from 1966 to 1973, died Dec. 19, 2000, at age 79.