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Apr 9, 2022

President Kennedy Observes the Senators Top the Tigers

Apr. 9, 1962 - The Washington Senators, whose 61-101 record last season prompted the adoption of “a better view in ’62” as their slogan...

Apr 9, 2022

VIDEO: President Kennedy Honors Children's Bureau

Apr. 9, 1962 - Here is a video excerpt of President Kennedy’s remarks on the 50th anniversary of the Children’s Bureau. #JFK #1960s...

Apr 9, 2022

Movies: Cliff Robertson to Star in "PT-109"

Apr. 9, 1962 - Cliff Robertson will portray John F. Kennedy in “PT-109,” the movie version of the President’s exploits as a Navy officer...

Apr 9, 2022

President Kennedy Honors the U.S. Children's Bureau

Apr. 9, 1962 - President Kennedy challenged adults today to continue trying to make the U.S. “a happy nursery” for children. The...

Apr 8, 2022

Bay of Pigs Invaders Convicted of Treason in Cuba

Apr. 8, 1962 - The 1,179 prisoners seized in the invasion of Cuba a year ago have been convicted of treason. But the Castro regime is...

Apr 8, 2022

Two Americans Killed, Two Captured by Viet Cong

Apr. 8, 1962 - Two United States enlisted men were killed and two others were missing today in an attack by Communist guerrillas near An...

Apr 7, 2022

Viet Cong Attack is Crushed in Four-Hour Battle in An Hoa

Apr. 7, 1962 - South Vietnamese Government forces (pictured), alerted by spies in the Viet Cong movement, crushed an attack by 1,200...

Apr 6, 2022

President Kennedy Receives American League Baseball Pass

Apr. 6, 1962 - President Kennedy received his American League baseball pass today. He gave a sympathetic chuckle when told that the...

Apr 6, 2022

William F. Buckley Calls Former General Walker "Politically Ignorant"

Apr. 6, 1962 - William F. Buckley Jr., editor of the conservative magazine National Review, called former Maj. Gen. Edwin A. Walker...

Apr 5, 2022

U.S. Army Establishes Anti-Guerrilla School at Fort Bragg

Apr. 5, 1962 - The Army announced today that it had established an anti-guerrilla school at Fort Bragg, N.C. Personnel will be trained to...

Apr 5, 2022

Former Gen. Edwin A. Walker Punches Reporter Outside Senate Caucus Room

Apr. 5, 1962 — As Edwin A. Walker left the Senate caucus room today after testifying about Secretary of State Dean Rusk’s role in an...

Apr 5, 2022

President Kennedy Proclaims May 1 as Loyalty Day

Apr. 5, 1962 - President Kennedy set aside May 1 as a special day for declaring “unceasing devotion and loyalty to this nation” and “our...

Apr 5, 2022

Former Gen. Edwin A. Walker Challenges Secretary Rusk's Loyalty

Apr. 5, 1962 - Edwin A. Walker, who resigned from the Army to take up the cause of “Constitutional” conservatism, challenged today the...

Apr 4, 2022

Movies: Filming of "PT-109" Underway in Florida

Apr. 4, 1962 - The mystery of rumored invasion preparations in the Key West area of Florida was cleared up today at Warner Brothers. What...

Apr 4, 2022

President Kennedy Gets a New Rocking Chair from Dominican Foreign Minister

Apr. 4, 1962 - President Kennedy accepted today a rocking chair made of 400-year-old mahogany wood from the Dominican Republic. Then he...

Apr 3, 2022

President to Throw First Ball of 1962 Baseball Season Monday in Washington

Apr. 3, 1962 - President Kennedy will throw out the first ball when the Washington Senators and Detroit Tigers open the 1962 baseball...

Apr 3, 2022

Averell Harriman: Chinese Reds Want U.S. Out of Western Pacific

Apr. 3, 1962 - W. Averell Harriman, Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs, told Congress today that the overriding...

Apr 3, 2022

President Kennedy Welcomes Brazilian President João Goulart to Washington

Apr. 3, 1962 - President João Goulart of Brazil arrived in Washington today for a state visit that the Kennedy Administration considers...

Apr 2, 2022

President Kennedy to Attend Birthday Fundraiser at Madison Square Garden

Apr. 2, 1962 - President Kennedy accepted today an invitation from Mayor Wagner of New York City to attend a Democratic fund-raising...

Apr 1, 2022

Movies: Lewis Milestone to Direct "PT 109"

Apr. 1, 1962 - Lewis Milestone has been signed to direct “PT 109,” Warner Brothers’ version of a book by Robert J. Donovan detailing the...