Castro Embraces Communism
Dec. 1, 1961 - Premier Fidel Castro sang the praises of Lenin today and proclaimed, “I absolutely believe in Marxism.” The Cuban leader’s...
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Dec 1, 2021
U.N. Ambassador Stevenson Denounces Communist China
Dec. 1, 1961 - Adlai E. Stevenson denounced Communist China today and said that its admission to the United Nations would give the...
Nov 30, 2021
Vice President Johnson Defends Anti-Communist Speech
Nov. 30, 1961 - Vice President Johnson said today that he saw “no reason to protect the Communists from the truth.” He was referring to a...
Nov 16, 2021
President Kennedy's Plan for Vietnam
Nov. 16, 1961 - President Kennedy has decided on the measures that the U.S. is prepared to take to strengthen South Vietnam against...
Nov 12, 2021
Air Force Flies Reconnaissance Missions over South Vietnam
Nov. 12, 1961 - Reliable informants said today that U.S. Air Force jets were flying reconnaissance missions over South Vietnam to...
Nov 11, 2021
Viet Cong Have Bases in Cambodia
Nov. 11, 1961 - Military intelligence sources in South Vietnam estimate that 6,000 Communist troops occupy a number of bases in Cambodia....
Nov 9, 2021
Air Force Strengthens South Vietnam's Defenses against Reds
Nov. 9, 1961 - The U.S. Air Force has begun a huge supply and training program in Saigon to strengthen South Vietnam’s defenses against...
Nov 6, 2021
Viet Cong Terrorize Malaria-Control Teams
Nov. 6, 1961 - The Government’s malaria-control teams have taken heavy losses in South Vietnam’s protracted jungle war with Communist...
Nov 5, 2021
Nine Escape East Berlin, Family Left Behind
Nov. 5, 1961 - Thirty East Germans attempted to break through the barbed wire to reach West Berlin today. The fire of an East German...
Nov 4, 2021
U.S. Pushing Reforms in South Vietnam as Conditional to Aid
Nov. 4, 1961 - Officials sources indicated today that the U.S. would press South Vietnam to undertake major economic, social, and...
Nov 3, 2021
TV: Guerrilla-Warfare Techniques Highlighted on CBS
Nov. 3, 1961 - A two-part study of guerrilla warfare techniques will be shown on “The Twentieth Century” on CBS-TV Sunday, Nov. 12 and...
Nov 3, 2021
Kennedy Opposed to Ground Troops in Vietnam
Nov. 3, 1961 - President Kennedy remains strongly opposed to the dispatch of American combat troops to South Vietnam, it was reported in...
Nov 2, 2021
General Walker Resigns from Army
Nov. 2, 1961 - Maj. Gen. Edwin A. Walker made known today his decision to resign from the Army. The general was formally admonished and...
Nov 1, 2021
Stalin's Body Removed from Lenin Mausoleum
Nov. 1, 1961 - The Soviet people learned today that the body of Joseph Stalin has been removed from the Lenin Mausoleum and buried near...
Nov 1, 2021
Government on the Offensive in South Vietnam
Nov. 1, 1961 - More than 500 Vietnamese Communist guerrillas are reported to have been killed in clashes with Government forces in recent...
Oct 31, 2021
Former President and Mrs. Truman Arrive in Capital
Oct. 31, 1961 - Former President and Mrs. Harry S. Truman arrived in Washington today for a 3-day round of events that will include...
Oct 31, 2021
TV: Telecast of Hollywood Anti-Communist Rally on New York’s WPIX
Oct. 31, 1961 - A three-hour taped telecast of an anti-Communist rally (pictured) in Southern California will be shown tomorrow night on...
Oct 31, 2021
Rayburn Goes Home to End His Days Among Friends and Neighbors
Oct. 31, 1961 - House Speaker Sam Rayburn (pictured last May) went home to Bonham, Texas by ambulance today. The Democratic leader had...
Oct 31, 2021
What if a 50-Megaton Bomb Exploded Over Manhattan?
Oct. 31, 1961 - If exploded in the air over downtown Manhattan, a 50-megaton bomb would destroy homes as far away as Passaic, N.J. and...
Oct 30, 2021
Khrushchev Warns Britain on Nuclear War
Oct. 30, 1961 - Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev warned Britain today that that nation “may be among the first to experience the destructive...
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