Kennedy to South Vietnam: We'll Help You Resist Reds
Oct. 26, 1961 - President Kennedy has reassured South Vietnam of his determination to help it resist Communist attacks and preserve its...
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Oct 25, 2021
Pulitzer Prize Winner Carl Sandburg Visits President Kennedy
Oct. 25, 1961 - Carl Sandburg (left), Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and biographer of Abraham Lincoln, called at the White House today to...
Oct 25, 2021
President Kennedy Approves Nuclear Explosion for Peaceful Use
Oct. 25, 1961 - President Kennedy gave his approval today for an underground nuclear explosion in the salt caverns of New Mexico as the...
Oct 25, 2021
State Department Notes “Serious Development” in Berlin
Oct. 25, 1961 - The State Department announced today that the Soviet commander in Berlin had rejected a protest by the U.S. commander...
Oct 24, 2021
Kennedy to Receive Advice on Broadcasts from TV Producer Fred Coe
Oct. 24, 1961 - The White House said today that President Kennedy would receive advice on some of his future telecasts from Fred Coe, New...
Oct 24, 2021
Eisenhower Calls Peace Corps “Juvenile Experiment”
Oct. 24, 1961 - Former President Eisenhower accused the Kennedy Administration today of doing “a good job of confusing me and all my...
Oct 23, 2021
Rockefeller: Kennedy Not “Unbeatable” in 1964
Oct. 23, 1961 - “I don’t think anybody is unbeatable,” Governor Rockefeller (right) of New York said today when asked whether a...
Oct 23, 2021
🚨Soviets Detonate Most Powerful Nuclear Explosion in History
Oct. 23, 1961 - The Soviet Union conducted the largest man-made explosion in history today by detonating a thermonuclear bomb with a...
Oct 22, 2021
Video: “Operation Readiness” Highlights Cold War Efforts
Video: “Operation Readiness” Highlights Cold War Efforts Oct. 22, 1961 - “Operation Readiness” is a film produced by the U.S. Army about...
Oct 22, 2021
President Kennedy Most Voracious Reader Since Theodore Roosevelt
Oct. 22, 1961 - Perhaps the White House’s most voracious reader since Teddy Roosevelt, President Kennedy daily digests a mountain of...
Oct 22, 2021
U.S. Soldiers with Fixed Bayonets Escort Diplomat into East Berlin
Oct. 22, 1961 - Nine armed United States soldiers moved into East Berlin twice today to enforce the right of an American diplomat to...
Oct 21, 2021
Kennedy to Witness Amphibious Exercises in San Diego
Oct. 21, 1961 - President Kennedy will witness Navy and Marine Corps amphibious exercises at San Diego, Calif., on Nov. 18, the White...
Oct 21, 2021
Kennedy Spokesman: Anyone Who Attacks U.S. Will Be Destroyed
Oct. 21, 1961 - The U.S. is so strong and its power so well-deployed that an aggressor making a sneak nuclear attack would invite...
Oct 21, 2021
General Taylor Tours Fighting Zones in South Vietnam
Oct. 21, 1961 - Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor (pictured with South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem) and his chief aides made an extensive air...
Oct 19, 2021
East German Communists Reward Children for Informing
Oct. 19, 1961 - The Communists are offering prizes to children who betray people, including family members, trying to escape from East...
Oct 19, 2021
North Vietnamese Delegation Assails U.S. on Taylor Trip
Oct. 19, 1961 - The Communist North Vietnamese delegation at the Laotian conference in Geneva assailed the United States today for having...
Oct 18, 2021
Eisenhower: West Embraces Spiritual Values that Communists Deny
Oct. 18, 1961 - Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower (pictured the day before his inauguration in 1953) said today that the Western...
Oct 18, 2021
Highlights of Khrushchev Speech in Moscow
Oct. 18, 1961 - Following are highlights of Premier Khrushchev’s speech yesterday at the 22nd congress of the Soviet Communist party in...
Oct 18, 2021
President Diem Places South Vietnam in “State of Emergency”
Oct. 18, 1961 - President Ngo Dinh Diem (pictured) placed South Vietnam in a “state of emergency” today after announcing that Col. Hoang...
Oct 17, 2021
U.S. to Soviets: Don’t Explode 50-Megaton Weapon
Oct. 17, 1961 - The U.S. called upon the Soviet Union today to reconsider the planned explosion of a fifty-megaton atomic weapon. Such an...
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