GOP Wants "Full Report" on Vietnam from Kennedy
Feb. 13, 1962 - The Republican National Committee called on President Kennedy today to “make a full report to the American people” on...
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Feb 11, 2022
Katu Tribe Sets Poison Traps in Vietnam
Feb. 11, 1962 - U.S. military personnel on reconnaissance in central Vietnam have run into hostile aborigines, belonging to the Katu...
Feb 11, 2022
Washington Officials See Mounting Danger in Vietnam
Feb. 11, 1962 - What President Kennedy has called the “increasing ferocity” of the war in South Vietnam and the increasing involvement of...
Feb 9, 2022
James Cagney Narrates Documentary on Communism "The Road to the Wall"
Feb. 9, 1962 - Narrated by actor James Cagney, "The Road to the Wall" explores the steady march of Communism through the years. It begins...
Feb 9, 2022
U.S. Build-Up in South Vietnam Continues
Feb. 9, 1962 - The decision announced yesterday to set up a new U.S. command in Saigon under a full general is said to be a result of the...
Feb 8, 2022
President Kennedy Picks General Harkins to Head Vietnam Command
Feb. 8, 1962 - The U.S. established a new military command in Communist-threatened South Vietnam today and named a four-star general to...
Feb 7, 2022
U.S. Military Personnel Pour Into South Vietnam
Feb. 7, 1962 - Two U.S. Army air support companies totaling 300 men arrived in Saigon today from the plains of Kansas to bolster South...
Feb 6, 2022
U.S. Army Helicopters Take Fire from Viet Cong
Feb. 6, 1962 - One U.S. Army helicopter crashed and burned, and two others were hit by Communist Viet Cong guerrilla fire today on an...
Feb 4, 2022
South Vietnamese Troops Hit Reds With Assist from U.S. Air Force Helicopter Company
Feb. 4, 1962 - A U.S. Air Force helicopter company carrying Vietnamese troops routed Communist forces today around the village of Hung...
Feb 2, 2022
VIDEO: President Kennedy's Message to the People of South Vietnam
Feb. 1962 | President Kennedy filmed a New Year's message to the people of South Vietnam, calling their struggle against Communist...
Jan 31, 2022
President Kennedy Pleased with OAS Exclusion of Cuba
Jan. 31, 1962 - President Kennedy expressed satisfaction today with the actions taken against Cuba by the Organization of American...
Jan 30, 2022
Communist China Excoriates Robert F. Kennedy
Jan. 30, 1962 - Communist China’s propaganda campaign against President Kennedy was extended today to Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy,...
Jan 30, 2022
Organization of American States Votes Cuba Out
Jan. 30, 1962 - Foreign ministers of the Organization of American States voted today by a two-thirds majority to exclude Cuba from...
Jan 27, 2022
FBI Says Communists Seek to Influence Students Here
Jan. 27, 1962 - The Communist party in this country is stepping up a nationwide campaign to influence students, an FBI official said...
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...
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