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Oct 26, 2021

Kennedy to South Vietnam: We'll Help You Resist Reds

Oct. 26, 1961 - President Kennedy has reassured South Vietnam of his determination to help it resist Communist attacks and preserve its...

Oct 25, 2021

Pulitzer Prize Winner Carl Sandburg Visits President Kennedy

Oct. 25, 1961 - Carl Sandburg (left), Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and biographer of Abraham Lincoln, called at the White House today to...

Oct 25, 2021

President Kennedy Approves Nuclear Explosion for Peaceful Use

Oct. 25, 1961 - President Kennedy gave his approval today for an underground nuclear explosion in the salt caverns of New Mexico as the...

Oct 25, 2021

State Department Notes “Serious Development” in Berlin

Oct. 25, 1961 - The State Department announced today that the Soviet commander in Berlin had rejected a protest by the U.S. commander...

Oct 24, 2021

Kennedy to Receive Advice on Broadcasts from TV Producer Fred Coe

Oct. 24, 1961 - The White House said today that President Kennedy would receive advice on some of his future telecasts from Fred Coe, New...

Oct 24, 2021

Eisenhower Calls Peace Corps “Juvenile Experiment”

Oct. 24, 1961 - Former President Eisenhower accused the Kennedy Administration today of doing “a good job of confusing me and all my...

Oct 23, 2021

Rockefeller: Kennedy Not “Unbeatable” in 1964

Oct. 23, 1961 - “I don’t think anybody is unbeatable,” Governor Rockefeller (right) of New York said today when asked whether a...

Oct 23, 2021

🚨Soviets Detonate Most Powerful Nuclear Explosion in History

Oct. 23, 1961 - The Soviet Union conducted the largest man-made explosion in history today by detonating a thermonuclear bomb with a...

Oct 22, 2021

Video: “Operation Readiness” Highlights Cold War Efforts

Video: “Operation Readiness” Highlights Cold War Efforts Oct. 22, 1961 - “Operation Readiness” is a film produced by the U.S. Army about...

Oct 22, 2021

President Kennedy Most Voracious Reader Since Theodore Roosevelt

Oct. 22, 1961 - Perhaps the White House’s most voracious reader since Teddy Roosevelt, President Kennedy daily digests a mountain of...

Oct 22, 2021

President Kennedy Gives Up Short Cigars

Oct. 22, 1961 - President Kennedy has given up the short cigars he favored when he first entered the White House and now smokes a new...

Oct 22, 2021

U.S. Soldiers with Fixed Bayonets Escort Diplomat into East Berlin

Oct. 22, 1961 - Nine armed United States soldiers moved into East Berlin twice today to enforce the right of an American diplomat to...

Oct 21, 2021

Kennedy to Witness Amphibious Exercises in San Diego

Oct. 21, 1961 - President Kennedy will witness Navy and Marine Corps amphibious exercises at San Diego, Calif., on Nov. 18, the White...

Oct 21, 2021

Kennedy Spokesman: Anyone Who Attacks U.S. Will Be Destroyed

Oct. 21, 1961 - The U.S. is so strong and its power so well-deployed that an aggressor making a sneak nuclear attack would invite...

Oct 21, 2021

General Taylor Tours Fighting Zones in South Vietnam

Oct. 21, 1961 - Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor (pictured with South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem) and his chief aides made an extensive air...

Oct 20, 2021

President Kennedy on New Exercise Regimen

Oct. 20, 1961 - President Kennedy has started a daily program of exercises to strengthen his muscles and remove fear that his chronic...

Oct 19, 2021

East German Communists Reward Children for Informing

Oct. 19, 1961 - The Communists are offering prizes to children who betray people, including family members, trying to escape from East...

Oct 19, 2021

North Vietnamese Delegation Assails U.S. on Taylor Trip

Oct. 19, 1961 - The Communist North Vietnamese delegation at the Laotian conference in Geneva assailed the United States today for having...

Oct 19, 2021

John F. Kennedy Jr. Now Stands in Crib

Oct. 19, 1961 - Ten-month-old John F. Kennedy Jr. is now standing in his crib. Pamela Turnure, press secretary to Mrs. Jacqueline...

Oct 18, 2021

Video: Kennedy’s European Trip Shown in “The Task Begun”

Oct. 18, 1961 - “The Task Begun” is a color film produced by the U.S. Information Service about President Kennedy’s trip to Europe this...