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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 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 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

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 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 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

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...