Fifty Thousand Soviet Troops Enter Communist East Germany
Oct. 10, 1961 - Fifty thousand Soviet combat troops and ten thousand Polish troops have arrived in Communist East Germany to take part in...
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Oct 9, 2021
President Kennedy Visits Rayburn in Hospital
Oct. 9, 1961 - President Kennedy made a flying trip to Texas today and paid a call on an old comrade of the legislative wars, Speaker of...
Oct 8, 2021
Kennedys Cruise on “Honey Fitz”
Oct. 8, 1961 - Cruising on a 92-foot yacht can be frustrating for a 3-year-old girl. The rails are high and it is hard to see over them....
Oct 8, 2021
Hoffa’s Humor
Oct. 8, 1961 - Even his detractors on the staff of the Senate Permanent Investigations Subcommittee were chuckling over the comment of...
Oct 7, 2021
Kennedy Talks Tough on Southeast Asia
Oct. 7, 1961 - The United States is considering sending troops to Southeast Asia to cope with the worsening situation in Vietnam and a...
Oct 6, 2021
President Kennedy Meets with Gromyko, No Progress on Germany
Oct. 6, 1961 - President Kennedy and Andrei A. Gromyko, Soviet Foreign Minister, exchanged some blunt views on Germany this evening, but...
Oct 6, 2021
West Berlin Mayor Brandt: Wall "Must Come Down"
Oct. 6, 1961 - Mayor Willy Brandt (right) of West Berlin said today that the wall that divides Berlin is a brazen challenge to the West...
Oct 6, 2021
President Kennedy Meets Greek Patriarch, Archbishop
Oct. 6, 1961 - President Kennedy was presented with the Grand Cross and Insignia of the Order of the Holy Sephulcre today. He also...
Oct 5, 2021
House Speaker Sam Rayburn Suffering From Terminal Cancer
Oct. 5, 1961 - House Speaker Sam Rayburn (pictured at last year's Democratic National Convention), 79 years old, is suffering from...
Oct 4, 2021
President Kennedy Establishes Woodrow Wilson Memorial Commission
Oct. 4, 1961 - President Kennedy signed a bill today establishing a Woodrow Wilson Memorial Commission. He gave the first pen he used to...
Oct 2, 2021
U.S. to Help South Vietnam Defend Fight Reds
Oct. 2, 1961 - The United States announced today that it was taking urgent measures to help South Vietnam combat an increase in Communist...
Oct 1, 2021
South Vietnam President Diem: We're at War
Oct. 1, 1961 - South Vietnam's struggle against armed Communist insurgents has grown from guerrilla action to "real war" in the last...
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