Call for assistance! Robert P. Murkshe served as Cocoa Beach Mayor from 1963 to 1972, a period when the community grew significantly in population, physical size, and international notoriety. ChronoPoints is currently digitizing a number of photographs pertaining to Mayor Murkshe from the collections of the Florida Historical Society and will be providing a gallery here on our site. If you have any photographs or political memorabilia of Mayor Murkshe please consider allowing us the opportunity to digitize these materials.