Robert F. Kennedy Arrives in Rome
Feb. 20, 1962 - Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and his party received a warm welcome today from a small crowd at the Rome airport...
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Feb 19, 2022
Goldwater Praises McNamara, Hits Kennedy on Cuba
Feb. 19, 1962 - Senator Barry Goldwater praised Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara today as “one of the best Secretaries of Defense...
Feb 18, 2022
Nina Khrushchev Pleads for Disarmament in Message to American Women
Feb. 18, 1962 - Mrs. Nina Petrovna Khrushchev (pictured with the First Lady last June in Austria), wife of the Soviet Premier, pleaded...
Feb 18, 2022
RFK: We Will Win in Vietnam
Feb. 18, 1962 - Robert F. Kennedy said today that U.S. troops would stay in South Vietnam until Communist aggression was defeated. The...
Feb 18, 2022
Specialists Cast Doubt on National Shelter Program
Feb. 18, 1962 - A pamphlet contending that any national shelter program would be almost useless has been issued by eight specialists who...
Feb 17, 2022
RFK in Bandung: "American Plane Got Me Here, Russian One Didn't"
Feb. 17, 1962 - Robert F. Kennedy made political capital today of his misadventures in a Soviet-built transport plane. The plane, an...
Feb 17, 2022
McCone Replaces Bissell with Richard Helms at CIA
Feb. 17, 1962 - John A. McCone (pictured), the new director of the C.I.A., has begun to rebuild the agency’s high command by putting a...
Feb 17, 2022
Robert F. Kennedy's Remarks on Mexican War Cause Furor
Feb. 17, 1962 - Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy found himself in the center of a Texas twister last night because of an impromptu...
Feb 16, 2022
Foreign TV Execs Interested in First Lady's White House Tour
Feb. 16, 1962 - Foreign television executives from Communist Hungary to Japan are regarding the TV White House tour with Mrs. Jacqueline...
Feb 16, 2022
VIDEO: President Kennedy's Rose Garden Remarks to Foreign Educators
Feb. 16, 1962 - Here is video of President Kennedy’s remarks in the Rose Garden to a group of visiting foreign educators. The 325...
Feb 16, 2022
Nixon Warns Kennedys to Keep Out of California Campaign
Feb. 16, 1962 - Richard M. Nixon warned the Kennedys today to keep their hands off the California Gubernatorial election. Mr. Nixon, one...
Feb 16, 2022
Governor Rockefeller Hits Kennedy on Civil Rights
Feb. 16, 1962 - New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, speaking at a Lincoln Day fund-raising dinner held by the Niagara County Republican...
Feb 15, 2022
First Lady's White House Tour Seen by 46,550,000
Feb. 15, 1962 - Mrs. Kennedy’s televised tour of the White House Wednesday night was watched by 46,550,000 persons, according to survey...
Feb 15, 2022
Nixon Supports President Kennedy on Vietnam Build-Up
Feb. 15, 1962 - Former Vice President Nixon opposed today criticism of the buildup by the U.S. of military forces in South Vietnam to bar...
Feb 15, 2022
TV: Ike Appraises World Figure During CBS Interview with Walter Cronkite
Feb. 15, 1962 - Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower (pictured right in November 1944) last night gave a TV audience thumbnail...
Feb 14, 2022
First Lady Excels as White House Tour Guide
Feb. 14, 1962 - Millions of television viewers toured the White House this evening with Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy leading the way. The...
Feb 14, 2022
TV: First Lady's White House Tour
Feb. 14, 1962 - First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy gives an exclusive televised tour of the White House, hosted by CBS's Charles Collingwood....
Feb 14, 2022
Nationalist Chinese General Hu Tsung-Nan Dead at 62
Feb. 14, 1962 - General Hu Tsung-Nan (pictured in 1936), who wanted to throw his 250,000 troops against the Chinese Communists during...
Feb 14, 2022
Nixon Campaigns in Mariposa
Feb. 14, 1962 - Richard M. Nixon carried his campaign for the Governorship of California to Mariposa today. The former Vice President...
Feb 14, 2022
Governor Rockefeller Talks Impending Divorce
Feb. 14, 1962 - New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller said today that the question of whether his pending divorce would be a political...
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