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Dec 29, 2023

An Ebullient President Johnson Gives Out Ten-Gallon Hats

Dec. 29, 1963 - In Stonewall, Texas today, President Johnson perched a ten-gallon Texas hat on the head of West German Chancellor Ludwig...

Dec 28, 2023

President Johnson and West German Chancellor Erhard Hold Cordial Meeting in Texas

Dec. 28, 1963 - President Johnson and Chancellor Ludwig Erhard of West Germany, meeting today at Bergstrom Air Force Base near Austin,...

Dec 27, 2023

President Johnson Prepares To Meet New West German Chancellor

Dec. 27, 1963 - President Johnson made it clear today that the two days of talks he is starting tomorrow with Chancellor Ludwig Erhard of...

Jun 28, 2023

Khrushchev Draw Middling Crowds in East Berlin

June 28, 1963 - Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev rode through East Berlin today in a “friendship visit” that drew a considerably milder...

Jun 25, 2023

President Kennedy Continues Tour of West Germany

June 25, 1963 - President Kennedy visited American troops today and then went on to a triumphal reception in Hanau, Frankfurt, and...

Jun 23, 2023

President Kennedy Tours West Germany

June 23, 1963 - President Kennedy opened his tour of Europe today with an enormous welcome from almost a million West Germans in Cologne,...

Jun 23, 2023

One Million Rhinelanders Cheer President Kennedy

June 23, 1963 - More than 1,000,000 cheering Rhinelanders turned out today to give President Kennedy a “herzlich willkommen” — a...

May 6, 2023

U.S. Army Captain Defects to East Germany

May 6, 1963 - East Germany reported today that a U.S. Army captain deserted his post in West Germany Saturday and asked for political...

Dec 27, 2022

Five More East German Refugees Escape

Dec. 27, 1962 - Five more East German refugees escaped to West Berlin unnoticed by communist border guards today, bringing to 14 the...

Dec 26, 2022

Crippled War Veteran Leads Breakout from Communist East Germany

Dec. 26, 1962 - For six months, Hans Weidner, a crippled war veteran, worked deep in Communist East Germany to armor and outfit an old...

Nov 14, 2022

Nov. 14, 1962 - JFK Toast to West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer

Nov. 14, 1962 - Here is an audio clip from President Kennedy’s toast today to West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer at a luncheon held...

Nov 14, 2022

Nov. 14, 1962 - JFK Welcomes West German Chancellor Adenauer to Washington

Nov. 14, 1962 - Here is a clip from President Kennedy's remarks of welcome today to the Chancellor of West Germany, Dr. Konrad Adenauer....

Nov 14, 2022

President Kennedy Meets with Chancellor Adenauer

Nov. 14, 1962 - President Kennedy and West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer held a round of meetings today. Their discussions about the...

Jul 23, 2022

Nazi “Mercy Killers” Charged in West Germany

July 23, 1962 - More than 17 years after the collapse of the Nazi regime, one of Hitler’s chief planners for the “mercy killings” of the...

Feb 26, 2022

Former S.S. Guard Faces Charges for Murdering 20 Jews in WWII

Feb. 26, 1962 - A former S.S. (élite guard) sergeant went on trial in Stuttgart today, charged with the murder of 20 Jews during World...

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 24, 2022

28 East Germans Escape to West

Jan. 24, 1962 - Twenty-eight East Germans, including a 71-year-old paralyzed woman and an 8-year-old girl, fled to West Berlin early...

Dec 15, 2021

🚨Adolf Eichmann Sentenced to Death

Dec. 15, 1961 - In Israel today, Adolf Eichmann was sentenced to death by hanging for his role in the killing of 6,000,000 Jews during...

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...

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...