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Sep 14, 2021

President Kennedy Seeks New Tactics to Fight Communists

Sept. 14, 1961 - President Kennedy has set up a Cabinet-level group to draft a program for waging psychological and political tactics in...

Sep 13, 2021

Comedian Dick Gregory at NYC's Blue Angel

Sept. 13, 1961 - Dick Gregory, who won quick fame last spring as the first Negro comic to succeed in metropolitan cabarets, is back at...

Sep 12, 2021

Castro Goes after Church, Vatican Concerned

Sept. 12, 1961 - The Cuban Government launched a fresh attack against the Roman Catholic Church today. It accused priests and nuns of...

Sep 12, 2021

Soviets Conduct Yet Another Atomic Test

Sept. 12, 1961 - The Soviet Union conducted the seventh atomic test in its current series by detonating a multi-megaton device in the...

Sep 11, 2021

White House Refutes Eisenhower's Claim about Cuban Invasion Plan

Sept. 11, 1961 - Former President Eisenhower said today that no plans for an invasion of Cuba had been made before he left office. This...

Sep 10, 2021

Pope John XXIII Prays for the "Human Family"

Sept. 10, 1961 - Pope John XXIII called on the leaders of the East and West today to negotiate their differences and remove the threat of...

Sep 9, 2021

U.S. to Send 40,000 Additional Army Troops to Europe

Sept. 9, 1961 - The United States will send about 40,000 Army troops to Europe "in the immediate future" to strengthen combat and support...

Sep 9, 2021

Pentagon Disciplines Two Army Officers Over TV Show in West Berlin

Sept. 9, 1961 - The Pentagon took action against two Army officers in Berlin today for having permitted the use of U.S. forces in the...

Sep 9, 2021

Khrushchev Blames West for Soviet Nuclear Tests

Sept. 9, 1961 - Premier Khrushchev declared today that nuclear testing could be ended only by Western acceptance of Soviet proposals for...

Sep 8, 2021

Five More Rebel Prisoners Executed in Cuba

Sept. 8, 1961 - Five rebel prisoners taken after the unsuccessful landings at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba last April were sentenced to death...

Sep 8, 2021

Senators Decry Use of Military for Paar Show in West Berlin

Sept. 8, 1961 - "Shocking," "disgraceful," and "highly dangerous" were descriptions applied by Senators today to describe the use of U.S....

Sep 7, 2021

Khrushchev Interviewed by New York Times

Sept. 7, 1961 - Following are some of the main points made by Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev (pictured with President Kennedy at their...

Sep 7, 2021

Jack Paar in West Berlin to Film TV Show

Sept. 7, 1961 - Fifty armed U.S. soldiers moved rapidly down the street, then took possession of buildings overlooking the East-West...

Sep 7, 2021

Nehru after Khrushchev Meeting: "Foul Winds of War Are Blowing"

Sept. 7, 1961 - Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru of India talked for two hours today with Premier Khrushchev at the Kremlin and came out...

Sep 6, 2021

Russians Explode Nuclear Device East of Stalingrad

Sept. 6, 1961 - The Atomic Energy Commission announced today that the Soviet Union had detonated a fourth nuclear device in the...

Sep 5, 2021

De Gaulle: West Must Resist Soviet "Totalitarian Empire"

Sept. 5, 1961 - President de Gaulle of France urged today that the West firmly resist, by force if necessary, the menace of the Soviet...

Sep 5, 2021

🚨Kennedy Orders Resumption of Nuclear Weapons Tests

Sept. 5, 1961 - President Kennedy ordered today the resumption of nuclear weapons tests by the United States. He specified that the tests...

Sep 4, 2021

Soviet Premier Khrushchev Plays Art Critic for a Day

Sept. 4, 1961 - Premier Khrushchev went on record today as favoring art that depicted a cow as a cow. Lifting a champagne glass at the...

Sep 4, 2021

Americans Coast to Coast Fear Nuclear War

Sept. 4, 1961 - From New York to Los Angeles, civil defense authorities report a rise in the American citizen's fear of nuclear war....

Sep 4, 2021

🚨Soviets Explode Second Nuclear Bomb in Three Days

Sept. 4, 1961 - A new Soviet nuclear test took place early today over Central Asia, the Atomic Energy Commission announced. It was the...