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Aug 22, 2023

Madame Nhu’s Father Resigns Ambassadorship in Protest

Aug. 22, 1963 - Tran Van Chuong, South Vietnam’s once-influential Ambassador to the U.S., resigned today in angry protest against his...

Aug 21, 2023

🚨South Vietnamese Troops and Police Violently Crack Down on Buddhists

Aug. 21, 1963 - South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem’s troops and police shot their way into Saigon’s main Buddhist pagoda today and...

Aug 21, 2023

Negro Integration Leader’s Home Bombed in Birmingham

Aug. 21, 1963 - A bomb blasted the garage of a Negro integration leader last night in Birmingham, Ala., and 2,000 angry Negroes rushed to...

Aug 20, 2023

Two Youngsters Receive “Pupniks” from White House

Aug. 20, 1963 - Pictured left below is Mark Bruce, 9, of Columbia, Mo., being kissed today by a puppy named Streaker at Columbia airport....

Aug 20, 2023

JFK Spars with Republicans

Aug. 20, 1963 - President Kennedy (pictured in 1961) was asked today whether he believed “the radical right” had captured Senator Barry...

Aug 20, 2023

JFK: “I Don’t Think Racial Quotas Are a Good Idea”

Aug. 20, 1963 - President Kennedy said today that he disapproved of employment quotas based on race. This device has been proposed as a...

Aug 20, 2023

Raiders-Jets Game in Alabama Canceled Over Segregated Seating

Aug. 20, 1963 - Al Davis (left with Art Powell), coach of the American Football League’s Oakland Raiders, expressed disappointment over...

Aug 19, 2023

Oklahoma Governor Says Goldwater Would Carry Texas, Florida, Oklahoma

Aug. 19, 1963 - Governor Henry Bellmon of Oklahoma (pictured), the lone Republican voice at the Southern Governors Conference, said today...

Aug 18, 2023

Two Happy Youngsters to Receive “Pupniks” from White House

Aug. 18, 1963 - Two happy youngsters got the word today: they will receive White House puppies. The pups, Butterfly and Streaker, are...

Aug 18, 2023

North Vietnamese Communists Hit New U.S. Ambassador

Aug. 18, 1963 - Communist North Vietnam’s official newspaper today described Henry Cabot Lodge (pictured), the new U.S. Ambassador to...

Aug 18, 2023

James Meredith Graduates from University of Mississippi

Aug. 18, 1963 - James Meredith received a degree from the University of Mississippi today. He thus became the first Negro alumnus in the...

Aug 18, 2023

Massive Buddhist Demonstration in Saigon

Aug. 18, 1963 - About 15,000 Buddhists, most of them young people, crowded around Xa Loi Pagoda in Saigon today and pledged to fast in...

Aug 17, 2023

Dick Gregory Held in Chicago Prison

Aug. 17, 1963 - Dick Gregory, the Negro comedian, started work today as a reporter on the inmates’ newspaper in Chicago’s Bridewell Jail....

Aug 17, 2023

West Berliners Honor Memory of Peter Fechter

Aug. 17, 1963 - Thousands of West Berliners filed silently past a wooden cross on the western side of the Communist wall today. In small...

Aug 16, 2023

First Lieutenant Killed in Vietnam

Aug. 16, 1963 - Mrs. Susan Bedal of Burbank, Calif., received notification today from the Air Force in Washington of the death of her...

Aug 16, 2023

Madalyn Murray Plans Atheist Center in Kansas

Aug. 16, 1963 - Mrs. Madalyn Murray (left) today accepted a deed to 80 acres of land near Stockton, Kansas, for her proposed atheist...

Aug 15, 2023

Eisenhower Indicates Support for Nuclear Test Ban

Aug. 15, 1963 - Former President Eisenhower, returning today from a brief tour of World War II invasion beaches in France, strongly...

Aug 15, 2023

Another Buddhist Self-Immolation in South Vietnam

Aug. 15, 1963 - A 71-year-old monk burned himself to death in Hue’s biggest pagoda early today, the second Buddhist protest suicide in 24...

Aug 15, 2023

President Kennedy and Ambassador Lodge Hold Press Conference

Aug. 15, 1963 - President Kennedy held a final conference today with his new Ambassador to South Vietnam, Henry Cabot Lodge, who leaves...

Aug 14, 2023

Dog Days around the Kennedy Family

Aug. 14, 1963 - These are dog days around the Kennedy family. Another dog turned up today, and not even Press Secretary Pierre Salinger...