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Oct 14, 2021

General Taylor Will Seek Facts in South Vietnam

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, 2021

U.S. Conducts Largest Air-Defense Maneuvers in History

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, 2021

Officials: Khrushchev Seeks to Inflict Humiliation on the West in Berlin Crisis

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

Oct 13, 2021

Nixon: No Republican Can Beat Kennedy in ’64

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

Oct 13, 2021

Communist Leaders Mao Tse-Tung and Ho Chi Minh Meet in Beijing

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, 2021

Video: President Kennedy at Fort Bragg

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, 2021

Video: President Kennedy in North Carolina

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, 2021

President Kennedy Speaks at University of North Carolina

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, 2021

Moscow Radio Criticizes U.S. “Aggressive Plans” in Vietnam

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

Oct 12, 2021

Eisenhower on Debates: "I Can't Think of Anything Worse"

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

Oct 11, 2021

U.S. Bolsters Forces in Europe

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

Oct 11, 2021

President Kennedy Sending General Taylor to South Vietnam

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, 2021

Fifty Thousand Soviet Troops Enter Communist East Germany

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, 2021

President Kennedy Visits Rayburn in Hospital

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, 2021

Kennedys Cruise on “Honey Fitz”

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, 2021

Hoffa’s Humor

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

Oct 7, 2021

Kennedy Talks Tough on Southeast Asia

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, 2021

President Kennedy Meets with Gromyko, No Progress on Germany

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

Oct 6, 2021

West Berlin Mayor Brandt: Wall "Must Come Down"

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, 2021

President Kennedy Establishes Woodrow Wilson Memorial Commission

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