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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 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 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 6, 2021

President Kennedy Meets Greek Patriarch, Archbishop

Oct. 6, 1961 - President Kennedy was presented with the Grand Cross and Insignia of the Order of the Holy Sephulcre today. He also...

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...

Oct 2, 2021

U.S. to Help South Vietnam Defend Fight Reds

Oct. 2, 1961 - The United States announced today that it was taking urgent measures to help South Vietnam combat an increase in Communist...

Oct 1, 2021

South Vietnam President Diem: We're at War

Oct. 1, 1961 - South Vietnam's struggle against armed Communist insurgents has grown from guerrilla action to "real war" in the last...

Sep 30, 2021

Hoover Says American Reds Moving Underground

Sept. 30, 1961 - The American Communist party is moving farther underground in order to resist the Supreme Court's ruling that the party...

Sep 29, 2021

Castro Shuts Down Last Havana Casino

Sept. 29, 1961 - The last of Havana's gambling casinos closed quietly today, minutes after Premier Fidel Castro had announced that his...

Sep 29, 2021

Fear of Nuclear Radioactivity Increasing in U.S.

Sept. 29, 1961 - An American Medical Association publication came up today with a new phobia: "nucleomitophobia," or fear of atomic...

Sep 28, 2021

CIA Official Details Communist Subversion Tactics

Sept. 28, 1961 - An official of the Central Intelligence Agency has testified that fomenting riots, infiltrating police forces, and...

Sep 27, 2021

Berlin Wall Documentary (Video)

Sept. 27, 1961 - Here is a documentary on the Berlin Wall, the construction of which began August 13. #communism #communist #coldwar...

Sep 25, 2021

Eisenhower Impressed by President Kennedy's U.N. Speech

Sept. 25, 1961 - Former President Eisenhower commended President Kennedy's U.N. speech today. He said he believed "it summed up,...

Sep 25, 2021

🚨At U.N., President Kennedy Declares West Will Stand Firm on Berlin

Sept. 25, 1961 - President Kennedy said today that the Western powers would stand firm on West Berlin, but he emphasized that they wished...

Sep 24, 2021

Robert Kennedy says President Would Use Nuclear Weapons if Necessary

Sept. 24, 1961 - Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy said today that there "is no question" that his brother, President Kennedy, would...

Sep 23, 2021

Castro's Popularity May Be Slipping

\Sept. 23, 1961 - Five months have passed since Premier Fidel Castro described triumphantly on television the defeat of the anti-Castro...

Sep 22, 2021

Communist Viet Cong Launch Another Attack in South Vietnam

Sept. 22, 1961 - For the second time this week, the Communist guerrillas known as Viet Cong launched a devastating attack in South...