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May 11, 2022

Carpenter Spaceflight Delayed by NASA

May 11, 1962 - Difficulties with a control system have forced a delay in the scheduled attempt to send Lieut. Comdr. Scott Carpenter...

May 11, 2022

McNamara "Tremendously Encouraged" by Developments in Vietnam

May 11, 1962 - United States aid to South Vietnam has reached a peak and will start to level off, Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara...

May 10, 2022

O'Dell Remains Unbeaten as Giants Top Cardinals, 6-0

May 10, 1962 - Unbeaten Billy O’Dell (pictured), pitching in wind gusting over 40 miles an hour, set down the St. Louis Cardinals on four...

May 10, 2022

President Acclaims Hoover on 38th Year as F.B.I. Director

May 10, 1962 - J. Edgar Hoover finished his 38th year as Director of the FBI today, adding to what President Kennedy called “one of the...

May 9, 2022

Mets Acquire Marv Throneberry

May 9, 1962 - Marv Throneberry, a first baseman, was purchased today by the New York Mets from the Baltimore Orioles. Though the...

May 9, 2022

Yankees Break Up Monbo's No-Hitter, Top Red Sox, 4-1

May 9, 1962 - Just before his Red Sox took the field today, Manager Mike Higgins said: “Stopping these Yankees is tough. There’s no...

May 9, 2022

Brisk Sales for Tickets to President's Birthday Salute at MSG

May 9, 1962 - An advance sale of “well over” 400 tickets at $1,000 each for the “New York Birthday Salute to President Kennedy” was...

May 9, 2022

President Affirms that V.P. Johnson Will Remain on Ticket

May 9, 1962 - President Kennedy said today that Vice President Johnson would be on the Democratic ticket again in 1964 “if he chooses to...

May 9, 2022

President Kennedy Remarks on His Treatment by the Press

May 9, 1962 - The President was asked at his news conference today to comment on the press treatment of his Administration from day to...

May 9, 2022

McNamara: U.S. Will Not Send Combat Troops to Vietnam

May 9, 1962 - Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara (hatless at center) said today that there is no plan for introducing American...

May 9, 2022

President Kennedy Denies Crack about Businessmen

May 9, 1962 - President Kennedy denied today that he made a sharply critical remark about “all” businessmen. He told his news conference...

May 9, 2022

Australia To Join U.S. in Aiding South Vietnam

May 9, 1962 - Australia announced today that she was prepared to give token military and civilian aid to embattled South Vietnam. The...

May 8, 2022

Giants Top Cardinals, 4-3

May 8, 1962 - The San Francisco Giants broke the Larry Jackson jinx at eight games tonight by beating the St. Louis Cardinals, 4-3....

May 8, 2022

(VIDEO) President Kennedy Speaks in Atlantic City

May 8, 1962 - Here is a video excerpt of President Kennedy’s address at the convention of the United Auto Workers today in Atlantic City,...

May 8, 2022

Harry S. Truman is 78 Years Old

May 8, 1962 - Former President Harry S. Truman (pictured with Sir Winston Churchill in 1952) observed his 78th birthday in Kansas City,...

May 8, 2022

President Kennedy Speaks at United Auto Workers Convention

May 8, 1962 - President Kennedy (pictured with Walter Reuther) called on labor today to exercise restraint and responsibility in its...

May 8, 2022

First Lady Christens U.S.S. Lafayette

May 8, 1962 - The world’s largest submarine, the U.S.S. Lafayette, slipped smoothly into the Thames River in Groton, Connecticut today,...

May 8, 2022

West Berliners Cheer Gen. Lucius D. Clay

May 8, 1962 - Hundreds of West Berliners cheered and waved to Gen. Lucius D. Clay (pictured with Mayor Willy Brandt), President Kennedy’s...

May 7, 2022

President Kennedy Proclaims Mother's Day

May 7, 1962 - President Kennedy (pictured with Mary Josephine “Josie” Fitzgerald,” his 97-year-old grandmother) today proclaimed next...

May 7, 2022

Herb Score Demoted to Minors

May 7, 1962 - Herb Score, the one-time strikeout ace of the American League, was farmed to the minor leagues today by the Chicago White...