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Oct 27, 2021

Vice President Johnson: Communists Undermine U.S.

Oct. 27, 1961 - Vice President Johnson declared today that “good Americans” are unwittingly aiding the Communists by planting “seeds of...

Oct 27, 2021

New York City Mayor Wagner Visits President Kennedy

Oct. 27, 1961 - Mayor Wagner (left) of New York City came to Washington today and won new support from President Kennedy for his...

Oct 27, 2021

🚨U.S. and Soviet Tanks Confront Each Other for First Time in Berlin

Oct. 27, 1961 - United States and Soviet tanks confonted each other today for the first time in history. They were less than 100 yards...

Oct 26, 2021

🚨Thirty-Three Soviet Tanks Move into East Berlin in Show of Force

Oct. 26, 1961 - Thirty-three Soviet medium tanks, manned by Soviet troops, moved into the center of East Berlin today. It was a show of...

Oct 26, 2021

Kennedy to South Vietnam: We'll Help You Resist Reds

Oct. 26, 1961 - President Kennedy has reassured South Vietnam of his determination to help it resist Communist attacks and preserve its...

Oct 25, 2021

Pulitzer Prize Winner Carl Sandburg Visits President Kennedy

Oct. 25, 1961 - Carl Sandburg (left), Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and biographer of Abraham Lincoln, called at the White House today to...

Oct 25, 2021

President Kennedy Approves Nuclear Explosion for Peaceful Use

Oct. 25, 1961 - President Kennedy gave his approval today for an underground nuclear explosion in the salt caverns of New Mexico as the...

Oct 25, 2021

State Department Notes “Serious Development” in Berlin

Oct. 25, 1961 - The State Department announced today that the Soviet commander in Berlin had rejected a protest by the U.S. commander...

Oct 24, 2021

Kennedy to Receive Advice on Broadcasts from TV Producer Fred Coe

Oct. 24, 1961 - The White House said today that President Kennedy would receive advice on some of his future telecasts from Fred Coe, New...

Oct 24, 2021

Eisenhower Calls Peace Corps “Juvenile Experiment”

Oct. 24, 1961 - Former President Eisenhower accused the Kennedy Administration today of doing “a good job of confusing me and all my...

Oct 23, 2021

Rockefeller: Kennedy Not “Unbeatable” in 1964

Oct. 23, 1961 - “I don’t think anybody is unbeatable,” Governor Rockefeller (right) of New York said today when asked whether a...

Oct 23, 2021

🚨Soviets Detonate Most Powerful Nuclear Explosion in History

Oct. 23, 1961 - The Soviet Union conducted the largest man-made explosion in history today by detonating a thermonuclear bomb with a...

Oct 22, 2021

Video: “Operation Readiness” Highlights Cold War Efforts

Video: “Operation Readiness” Highlights Cold War Efforts Oct. 22, 1961 - “Operation Readiness” is a film produced by the U.S. Army about...

Oct 22, 2021

President Kennedy Most Voracious Reader Since Theodore Roosevelt

Oct. 22, 1961 - Perhaps the White House’s most voracious reader since Teddy Roosevelt, President Kennedy daily digests a mountain of...

Oct 22, 2021

President Kennedy Gives Up Short Cigars

Oct. 22, 1961 - President Kennedy has given up the short cigars he favored when he first entered the White House and now smokes a new...

Oct 22, 2021

U.S. Soldiers with Fixed Bayonets Escort Diplomat into East Berlin

Oct. 22, 1961 - Nine armed United States soldiers moved into East Berlin twice today to enforce the right of an American diplomat to...

Oct 21, 2021

Kennedy to Witness Amphibious Exercises in San Diego

Oct. 21, 1961 - President Kennedy will witness Navy and Marine Corps amphibious exercises at San Diego, Calif., on Nov. 18, the White...

Oct 21, 2021

Kennedy Spokesman: Anyone Who Attacks U.S. Will Be Destroyed

Oct. 21, 1961 - The U.S. is so strong and its power so well-deployed that an aggressor making a sneak nuclear attack would invite...

Oct 21, 2021

General Taylor Tours Fighting Zones in South Vietnam

Oct. 21, 1961 - Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor (pictured with South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem) and his chief aides made an extensive air...

Oct 20, 2021

President Kennedy on New Exercise Regimen

Oct. 20, 1961 - President Kennedy has started a daily program of exercises to strengthen his muscles and remove fear that his chronic...