🚨 Colonel John Glenn is First American to Orbit the Earth
Feb. 20, 1962 - John H. Glenn Jr. orbited three times around the earth today and landed safely to become the first American to make such...
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Feb 20, 2022
(VIDEO) President Kennedy's statement after John Glenn's orbital flight
Feb. 20, 1962 - President Kennedy made a brief statement to reporters following Lieut. Col. John Glenn's successful orbital flight. The...
Feb 20, 2022
Letters Reveal George Washington's Views of Manhood
Feb. 20, 1962 - The role of “father” played by the childless George Washington before he assumed the larger role of Father of his Country...
Feb 20, 2022
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...
Feb 20, 2022
McNamara Returns to Capital, Spokesman Says Viet Cong Being Hit "Harder than Ever"
Feb. 20, 1962 - Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara returned to the capital today and reported improvement in the South Vietnamese...
Feb 19, 2022
Glenn Spaceflight May Happen Tomorrow Morning
Feb. 19, 1962 - The prospects for sending Lieut. Col. John H. Glenn Jr. into orbit tomorrow seem better than they have for a week. The...
Feb 19, 2022
McNamara: "Long, Hard Struggle" in Vietnam
Feb. 19, 1962 - Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara said today that the South Vietnam war “seems to be stabilized,” but that guerrilla...
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
Maris and Yankees Not Seeing Eye to Eye on Contract
Feb. 18, 1962 - Salary negotiations between Roger Maris and the Yankees took a turn for the worse today. Actually, Maris does not have to...
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
Casey Stengel Promotes His New Book in St. Pete
Feb. 17, 1962 - Casey Stengel made his public debut as an author today. The 71-year-old manager of the New York Mets autographed copies...
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
GOP Wants Answers on Vietnam
Feb. 17, 1962 - The Republicans charged again today that President Kennedy was hiding the extent of U.S. involvement in South Vietnam....
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
Mets Sign Another Old Brooklyn Dodger, Clem Labine
Feb. 16, 1962 - Pitcher Clem Labine (pictured left with Jackie Robinson during the 1956 World Series) became the fifth former Brooklyn...
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...
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