1960s Timeline

Oct. 14, 1961 - President Kennedy has asked the mission to South Vietnam headed by Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor (left) to make a broad study of...

Oct. 14, 1961 - The largest air-defense maneuvers ever held in the Western world were concluded early today. For 12 hours, from 1 p.m....

Oct. 14, 1961 - Recent Soviet moves in the Berlin crisis have strengthened the conviction in Washington that Premier Khrushchev is less...

Oct. 13, 1961 - Richard M. Nixon has confirmed in conversations with friends that he doesn’t believe the Republican Presidential nominee,...

Oct. 13, 1961 - Mao Tse-tung (left), chief of the Chinese Communist party, and North Vietnamese President Ho Chi Minh (right) met last...

Oct. 12, 1961 - Here is video of President Kennedy’s remarks today to the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. He...

Oct. 12, 1961 - Here is video of President Kennedy’s address today at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill after receiving an...

Oct. 12, 1961 - President Kennedy said today it was a “dangerous illusion” to believe that “we shall soon meet total victory or total...

Oct. 12, 1961 - The Moscow radio asserted today that Washington had “openly aggressive” plans to send troops to South Vietnam. It...

Oct. 12, 1961 - Former President Eisenhower told a national television audience last night that, if he were in office, he would not...

Oct. 11, 1961 - The Defense Department announced today further reinforcement of U.S. forces in Europe. Units going overseas include an...

Oct. 11, 1961 - General Maxwell D. Taylor (pictured left) will go to South Vietnam this week on President Kennedy’s behalf to study means...

Oct. 10, 1961 - Fifty thousand Soviet combat troops and ten thousand Polish troops have arrived in Communist East Germany to take part in...

Oct. 9, 1961 - President Kennedy made a flying trip to Texas today and paid a call on an old comrade of the legislative wars, Speaker of...

Oct. 8, 1961 - Cruising on a 92-foot yacht can be frustrating for a 3-year-old girl. The rails are high and it is hard to see over them....

Oct. 8, 1961 - Even his detractors on the staff of the Senate Permanent Investigations Subcommittee were chuckling over the comment of...

Oct. 7, 1961 - The United States is considering sending troops to Southeast Asia to cope with the worsening situation in Vietnam and a...

Oct. 6, 1961 - President Kennedy and Andrei A. Gromyko, Soviet Foreign Minister, exchanged some blunt views on Germany this evening, but...

Oct. 6, 1961 - Mayor Willy Brandt (right) of West Berlin said today that the wall that divides Berlin is a brazen challenge to the West...

Oct. 4, 1961 - President Kennedy signed a bill today establishing a Woodrow Wilson Memorial Commission. He gave the first pen he used to...