1960s Timeline
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Former President and Mrs. Truman Arrive in Capital

Rayburn Goes Home to End His Days Among Friends and Neighbors

What if a 50-Megaton Bomb Exploded Over Manhattan?

Khrushchev Warns Britain on Nuclear War


White House: U.S. Nuclear Arsenal Superior to Any Nation


Vatican Condemns Soviet Explosion as “True Face” of Communism

Nixon Won’t Run for President in ’64, Will Support “Strongest Candidate”

🚨Soviets Detonate Most Powerful Explosion in History

Johnson: We Mustn't Let Communists Destroy Us from Within


President Kennedy Attends Road-Opening Ceremony in Oklahoma


U.S. Military Advisor in South Vietnam Shot by Communist Sniper


Secretary Connally May Run for Governor of Texas


Khrushchev Favors Memorial to Stalin’s Victims

Report: Guevara’s Power Reduced in Cuba


President Kennedy Issues 1961 Thanksgiving Proclamation


U.S. and Soviet Tanks Pull Back from Berlin Dividing Line

Vice President Johnson: Communists Undermine U.S.

New York City Mayor Wagner Visits President Kennedy


🚨U.S. and Soviet Tanks Confront Each Other for First Time in Berlin


🚨Thirty-Three Soviet Tanks Move into East Berlin in Show of Force