1960s Timeline

Aug. 28, 1962 - President Kennedy told 5,000 college students today that the burden of preserving world freedom in the next 10 or 20...

Aug. 27, 1962 - President Kennedy pinned a Bronze Star Medal for meritorious “cold war” service today on Maj. Lawrence R. Bailey Jr. of...

Aug. 22, 1962 - President Kennedy said today there was evidence that the Communist bloc had sent large numbers of technicians and...

Aug. 22, 1962 - The United States is “well behind” the Soviet Union in the space race, President Kennedy asserted today, but he repeated...

Aug. 13, 1962 - A special recorded program marking the first anniversary of the building of the Berlin wall was broadcast at noon today...

July 10, 1962 - In the wake of a U.S. nuclear test on the fringes of outer space, President Kennedy and Secretary Dean Rusk comment on...

July 8, 1962 - Dean Rusk addresses reports out of Vietnam indicating that the war against Communist guerrillas is not going well....

July 8, 1962 - Secretary of State Dean Rusk discusses new technologies for detecting nuclear tests. #nuclearwar #war #coldwar #1960s #russia

July 8, 1962 - Secretary of State Dean Rusk discusses conditions for coexistence with the Soviet Union. #coldwar #communism #sovietunion...

July 4, 1962 - The Cuban Air Ministry charged today that two U.S. planes flew over Cuba yesterday. This was the 13th such intrusion...

July 3, 1962 - Here are President Kennedy’s remarks at the White House today to members of a special anti-insurgency seminar run by the...

June 14, 1962 - President Kennedy responds to a Peace Corpsman's question as to why the U.S. does not send food to Red China. That nation...

May 31, 1962 - Communist guerrillas raided a leprosarium in the central highlands in South Vietnam last night and kidnapped three...

May 30, 1962 - Memorial Day was a day off in Congress, but not for Representative John V. Lindsay (pictured with his wife Mary),...

May 29, 1962 - Almost complete returns from today’s runoff primary gave George C. Wallace the Democratic nomination for Governor of...

May 29, 1962 - The chief of the South Vietnamese General Staff said today that the Vietnamese Air Force had bombed the headquarters of...

May 27, 1962 - Here is a two-part documentary, narrated by Chet Huntley, called “Red China.” The film traces the consolidation of power...

May 26, 1962 - Governor Rockefeller called today for a renewed faith in the American dream and an extension of that dream to...

May 26, 1962 - U.S Army and Marine helicopters carried Vietnamese troops in a raid today against remnants of two Communist guerrilla...

May 24, 1962 - The South Vietnamese Seventh Division continued today to inflict heavy casualties on a Communist guerrilla force trapped...