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...
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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...
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