East German Border Guards Close Escape Route after UPI Revelation
Jan. 25, 1962 - East German border guards seized today the entry to a secret tunnel that 28 East Germans used as an escape route to West...
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Jan 25, 2022
Nixon Campaigns in San Francisco
Jan. 25, 1962 - Richard M. Nixon walked through the Mission district of San Francisco today bidding for votes in his campaign for...
Jan 25, 2022
Texas Senator Yarborough Won't Run for Governor
Jan. 25, 1962 - Texas Senator Ralph Yarborough (pictured far left in 1960) took himself out of his state’s gubernatorial race today. The...
Jan 25, 2022
Rusk Urges Vigilance on Cuba
Jan. 25, 1962 - Secretary of State Dean Rusk urged the conference of American foreign ministers in Uruguay today to adopt a plan “to...
Jan 24, 2022
General Rosson Will Head "Special Warfare" Unit
Jan. 24, 1962 - The Army assigned its youngest general today to responsibility for directing the ground force’s expanding efforts in...
Jan 24, 2022
President Again Gives Milk a Boost
Jan. 24, 1962 - President Kennedy urged the American public again today to put its faith in the American cow and keep on drinking milk....
Jan 24, 2022
Mrs. Kennedy's Press Secretary Hits Back at Luce Charges on Clothes
Jan. 24, 1962 - Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy’s press secretary pointed out today that the First Lady wore American-made clothes practically...
Jan 24, 2022
California Governor Brown Formally Declares Candidacy for Re-election, Hits Nixon
Jan. 24, 1962 - California Governor Edmund G. Brown (pictured center in 1959) formally became a Democratic candidate for a second term...
Jan 24, 2022
Soviet Defense Minister Calls Shelters "Tombs Prepared in Advance"
Jan. 24, 1962 - Soviet Defense Minister Rodion Y. Malinovsky declared in an interview published today in Pravda, newspaper of the Soviet...
Jan 24, 2022
President Vigorously Defends Loyalty of Two State Department Employees
Jan. 24, 1962 - President Kennedy vigorously defended two State Department employees today against a newspaper woman’s statement that...
Jan 24, 2022
28 East Germans Escape to West
Jan. 24, 1962 - Twenty-eight East Germans, including a 71-year-old paralyzed woman and an 8-year-old girl, fled to West Berlin early...
Jan 23, 2022
Former Mob Hitman Found Dead in Attica Prison Cell
Jan. 23, 1962 - Jack Drucker (pictured in 1939), 56, once associated with the Murder Inc. ring, was found dead today in his cell at...
Jan 23, 2022
President Says Milk "Offers No Hazards" from Fallout or Cholesterol
Jan. 23, 1962 - President Kennedy told the public today that its milk supply “offers no hazards” either from radioactive fallout or...
Jan 23, 2022
Ike Shifts Position on "Muzzling" Generals
Jan. 23, 1962 - Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower suggested today that leading military men assume a major role in warning the public...
Jan 23, 2022
U.S. Seeks to Bar Cuba from Organization of American States
Jan. 23, 1962 - The United States fought for votes today on a new formula for the Cuban problem that would suspend Premier Fidel Castro’s...
Jan 22, 2022
Attorney General Kennedy Rejects Invitation to Visit Moscow
Jan. 22, 1962 - Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy rejected today an informal invitation to visit the Soviet Union. The President’s...
Jan 21, 2022
Sen. Humphrey Says Chinese Could Have Bomb "Any Time This Year"
Jan. 21, 1962 - The assistant Senate majority leader, Hubert Humphrey (left), said today that Red China could explode a nuclear device...
Jan 21, 2022
President Touts Democratic Party as "Party of Progress"
Jan. 21, 1962 - President Kennedy said last night that the Democratic party would win the 1962 elections if it ran “as a party of...
Jan 20, 2022
Soviet Leaders Invite Robert F. Kennedy to Visit Moscow
Jan. 20, 1962 - The Soviet leaders have asked Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy to visit Moscow on his world tour next month. President...
Jan 19, 2022
McNamara Says U.S. Resolved to Oppose Communist Aggression
Jan. 19, 1962 - Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara said today that the United States was resolved to oppose Communist aggression “in...
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