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Jan 27, 2022

U.S. Pilots Deliver Food and Ammunition to Isolated South Vietnamese Troops

Jan. 27, 1962 - U.S. pilots are risking their lives dropping live pigs and chickens to starving South Vietnamese troops at army outposts...

Jan 26, 2022

Extended-Tour Army Men To Be Released by July

Jan. 26, 1962 - Secretary of the Army Elvis J. Stahr Jr. (pictured far right) told Congress today that regular Army men whose duty tours...

Jan 25, 2022

East German Border Guards Close Escape Route after UPI Revelation

Jan. 25, 1962 - East German border guards seized today the entry to a secret tunnel that 28 East Germans used as an escape route to West...

Jan 25, 2022

Rusk Urges Vigilance on Cuba

Jan. 25, 1962 - Secretary of State Dean Rusk urged the conference of American foreign ministers in Uruguay today to adopt a plan “to...

Jan 24, 2022

General Rosson Will Head "Special Warfare" Unit

Jan. 24, 1962 - The Army assigned its youngest general today to responsibility for directing the ground force’s expanding efforts in...

Jan 24, 2022

Soviet Defense Minister Calls Shelters "Tombs Prepared in Advance"

Jan. 24, 1962 - Soviet Defense Minister Rodion Y. Malinovsky declared in an interview published today in Pravda, newspaper of the Soviet...

Jan 24, 2022

28 East Germans Escape to West

Jan. 24, 1962 - Twenty-eight East Germans, including a 71-year-old paralyzed woman and an 8-year-old girl, fled to West Berlin early...

Jan 23, 2022

President Says Milk "Offers No Hazards" from Fallout or Cholesterol

Jan. 23, 1962 - President Kennedy told the public today that its milk supply “offers no hazards” either from radioactive fallout or...

Jan 23, 2022

Ike Shifts Position on "Muzzling" Generals

Jan. 23, 1962 - Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower suggested today that leading military men assume a major role in warning the public...

Jan 23, 2022

U.S. Seeks to Bar Cuba from Organization of American States

Jan. 23, 1962 - The United States fought for votes today on a new formula for the Cuban problem that would suspend Premier Fidel Castro’s...

Jan 22, 2022

Attorney General Kennedy Rejects Invitation to Visit Moscow

Jan. 22, 1962 - Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy rejected today an informal invitation to visit the Soviet Union. The President’s...

Jan 21, 2022

Sen. Humphrey Says Chinese Could Have Bomb "Any Time This Year"

Jan. 21, 1962 - The assistant Senate majority leader, Hubert Humphrey (left), said today that Red China could explode a nuclear device...

Jan 20, 2022

Soviet Leaders Invite Robert F. Kennedy to Visit Moscow

Jan. 20, 1962 - The Soviet leaders have asked Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy to visit Moscow on his world tour next month. President...

Jan 19, 2022

McNamara Says U.S. Resolved to Oppose Communist Aggression

Jan. 19, 1962 - Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara said today that the United States was resolved to oppose Communist aggression “in...

Jan 18, 2022

Defoliation Efforts Begin in Vietnam

Jan. 18, 1962 - United States planes have sprayed jungle growth along the Saigon-Saint Jacques road in South Vietnam to remove foliage...

Jan 18, 2022

Soviets Withdraw Tanks from Berlin Border

Jan. 18, 1962 - The Soviet Army has withdrawn a dozen tanks from the heart of East Berlin, where they were encamped about half a mile...

Jan 17, 2022

Viet Cong Make Gains with Peasant Population

Jan. 17, 1962 - Despite considerable improvement in its information and propaganda services, the South Vietnamese Government is losing...

Jan 16, 2022

Chinese Communists Denounce President Kennedy

Jan. 16, 1962 - Communist Chinese propaganda denounced President Kennedy and the U.S. Government today. Accusing the President of acts of...

Jan 15, 2022

Thousands of Women Protest Nuclear Fallout at White House

Jan. 15, 1962 - Several thousand women from Eastern cities picketed the White House today to protest nuclear fallout. The pickets, soaked...

Jan 12, 2022

McNamara to Fly to Hawaii for Vietnam Conference

Jan. 12, 1962 - Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara (right) will fly to Hawaii Sunday for a day-long conference Monday on the...