🚨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...
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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
President Kennedy Gives Up Short Cigars
Oct. 22, 1961 - President Kennedy has given up the short cigars he favored when he first entered the White House and now smokes a new...
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 20, 2021
President Kennedy on New Exercise Regimen
Oct. 20, 1961 - President Kennedy has started a daily program of exercises to strengthen his muscles and remove fear that his chronic...
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
John F. Kennedy Jr. Now Stands in Crib
Oct. 19, 1961 - Ten-month-old John F. Kennedy Jr. is now standing in his crib. Pamela Turnure, press secretary to Mrs. Jacqueline...
Oct 18, 2021
Video: Kennedy’s European Trip Shown in “The Task Begun”
Oct. 18, 1961 - “The Task Begun” is a color film produced by the U.S. Information Service about President Kennedy’s trip to Europe this...
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 17, 2021
President and Mrs. Kennedy Attend National Symphony Concert
Oct. 17, 1961 - President and Mrs. Kennedy tonight attended half the opening performance of the National Symphony Orchestra’s concert...
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...
Oct 17, 2021
Eisenhower Talks Fallout Shelters, Nuclear War
Oct. 17, 1961 - Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower (pictured in Warsaw in 1945) said today that he did “not know the right answer to...
Oct 17, 2021
Khrushchev Addresses 22nd Congress of Soviet Communist Party
Oct. 17, 1961 - Premier Khrushchev said today that he would withdraw his deadline for a German peace treaty this year if the Western...
Oct 16, 2021
U.S. Eighth Infantry to Assist on “The Longest Day”
Oct. 16, 1961 - Seven hundred troops of the U.S. Eighth Infantry Division will be brought to Normandy from West Germany next week to help...
Oct 16, 2021
President Kennedy Meets with Finland President Kekkonen
Oct. 16, 1961 - President Urho K. Kekkonen (left) of Finland assured President Kennedy today that his country’s main purpose was “the...
Oct 15, 2021
New York Teachers: Nuclear Drills “Utter Futility”
Oct. 15, 1961 - New York’s Empire State Federation of teachers today called nuclear-shelter drills in public schools “utter futility.”...
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