1960s Timeline

Mar. 14, 1962 - Following are the highlights of President Kennedy’s news conference today: Berlin — The President said Soviet harassment...

Mar. 14, 1962 - Communist Cuba is attempting to demoralize this country and obtain vital U.S. dollars by smuggling opium from Red China...

Mar. 14, 1962 - United States pilots flying American-made planes spearheaded a major counterattack last week which resulted in one of...

Mar. 14, 1962 - Premier Fidel Castro urged young Cubans today to develop a more intense “Communist spirit” and declared that they would...

Mar. 14, 1962 - Edward M. Kennedy officially began today his campaign for the Senate seat once held by his brother, the President. The...

Mar. 14, 1962 - The United Nations-sponsored disarmament conference opened today at Geneva after a chilling Big Three foreign ministers’...

Mar. 14, 1962 - President Kennedy said today that the Soviet Union was putting additional obstacles in the way of a Berlin agreement by...

Mar. 13, 1962 - President Kennedy warned wealthy and powerful interests in Latin America today that “those who make peaceful revolution...

Mar. 13, 1962 - Here is video of President Kennedy’s remarks on the first anniversary of the Alliance for Progress. #JFK #jfkfiles #1960s...

Mar. 13, 1962 - Richard M. Nixon has related how Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and his top advisors wanted him to resign as the Republican...

Mar. 13, 1962 - Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy passed out lollipops to ailing Indian children today. The wife of the President spent half an...

Mar. 12, 1962 - Premier Fidel Castro announced today nationwide rationing of rice and beans, basic items of the Cuban diet. He also...

Mar. 12, 1962 - Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy received a glowing welcome to India today. The President’s wife saw a panorama of smiling faces,...

Mar. 11, 1962 - Cuba has put a claim on the invention of baseball. A recent speech by Premier Fidel Castro and a subsequent editorial in...

Mar. 11, 1962 - Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy was received in private audience by Pope John XXIII today amid all the pomp and splendor of the...

Mar. 10, 1962 - President Kennedy declared tonight that the U.S. must be prepared to “shoulder the burden” of meeting the threat of...

Mar. 10, 1962 - Here is video of President Kennedy’s remarks at a Miami Beach fundraising dinner honoring Senator George Smathers. #JFK...

Mar. 10, 1962 - Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy and her sister, Princess Lee Radziwill, were received warmly today on their arrival in Rome on a...

Mar. 9, 1962 - Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy left by commercial airliner tonight for a 20-day tour of India and Pakistan. The First Lady will...

Mar. 9, 1962 - “Berlin: Test for the West” is a documentary produced by Encyclopedia Britannica that traces the history of the city...