VIDEO: "Atomic Weapons and Fire"
Feb. 22, 1962 - “Atomic Weapons and Fire” is a film produced by the Defense Atomic Support Agency. It shows procedures to be used in the...
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Feb 22, 2022
George Washington's 230th Birthday Passes Quietly
Feb. 22, 1962 - George Washington’s 230th birthday was observed quietly in the capital today. At the Capitol there was the traditional...
Feb 21, 2022
Board of Inquiry Examines Powers U-2 Case
Feb. 21, 1962 - A special board of inquiry headed by E. Barrett Prettyman, a former Federal judge, is seeking to determine whether...
Feb 21, 2022
President Kennedy Outlines Difficulties in Vietnam and Laos
Feb. 21, 1962 - President Kennedy indicated today that the U.S. intended to try to bring about general stability in South Vietnam and...
Feb 20, 2022
VIDEO: ABC-TV News Capsule
Feb. 20, 1962 - Here is an evening news capsule from ABC-TV. #news #history #1960s #historyinpictures #historylover #historybuff...
Feb 20, 2022
Letters Reveal George Washington's Views of Manhood
Feb. 20, 1962 - The role of “father” played by the childless George Washington before he assumed the larger role of Father of his Country...
Feb 20, 2022
McNamara Returns to Capital, Spokesman Says Viet Cong Being Hit "Harder than Ever"
Feb. 20, 1962 - Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara returned to the capital today and reported improvement in the South Vietnamese...
Feb 19, 2022
McNamara: "Long, Hard Struggle" in Vietnam
Feb. 19, 1962 - Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara said today that the South Vietnam war “seems to be stabilized,” but that guerrilla...
Feb 17, 2022
GOP Wants Answers on Vietnam
Feb. 17, 1962 - The Republicans charged again today that President Kennedy was hiding the extent of U.S. involvement in South Vietnam....
Feb 16, 2022
Nixon Warns Kennedys to Keep Out of California Campaign
Feb. 16, 1962 - Richard M. Nixon warned the Kennedys today to keep their hands off the California Gubernatorial election. Mr. Nixon, one...
Feb 16, 2022
Washington Officials: Defeat of Viet Cong Could Take 10 Years
Feb. 16, 1962 - Washington officials predicted today the ultimate defeat of the Communist guerrillas in South Vietnam by the Government...
Feb 15, 2022
TV: Ike Appraises World Figure During CBS Interview with Walter Cronkite
Feb. 15, 1962 - Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower (pictured right in November 1944) last night gave a TV audience thumbnail...
Feb 15, 2022
Ambassador Nolting Bids South Vietnamese Stop Criticizing Government
Feb. 15, 1962 - Frederick E. Nolting, Ambassador to South Vietnam, said today that social, economic and political reforms in South...
Feb 14, 2022
Nationalist Chinese General Hu Tsung-Nan Dead at 62
Feb. 14, 1962 - General Hu Tsung-Nan (pictured in 1936), who wanted to throw his 250,000 troops against the Chinese Communists during...
Feb 14, 2022
Gallo to Serve Time in Rikers
Feb. 14, 1962 - Joseph Gallo, Brooklyn racketeer, was ordered today to serve a three-year term at Rikers Island Penitentiary for coercion...
Feb 14, 2022
Nixon Campaigns in Mariposa
Feb. 14, 1962 - Richard M. Nixon carried his campaign for the Governorship of California to Mariposa today. The former Vice President...
Feb 14, 2022
Governor Rockefeller Talks Impending Divorce
Feb. 14, 1962 - New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller said today that the question of whether his pending divorce would be a political...
Feb 14, 2022
General Henry I. Hodes Dead at 62, Combat Commander in WWII and Korea
Feb. 14, 1962 - General Henry Irving Hodes (pictured center in Korea in 1951), a combat commander in World War II and the Korean...
Feb 14, 2022
President Says He's Being as "Frank as Possible" on Vietnam
Feb. 14, 1962 - Responding to criticism, President Kennedy said today he was being as frank as possible about U.S. involvement in the war...
Feb 13, 2022
U.S. Destroyer Escorts Arriving in Vietnam
Feb. 13, 1962 - United States destroyer escorts will arrive at Danang in South Vietnam this week to bolster the South Vietnamese Navy’s...
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