1960s Timeline

Feb. 15, 1962 - Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower (pictured right in November 1944) last night gave a TV audience thumbnail...

Feb. 15, 1962 - Frederick E. Nolting, Ambassador to South Vietnam, said today that social, economic and political reforms in South...

Feb. 14, 1962 - Millions of television viewers toured the White House this evening with Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy leading the way. The...

Feb. 14, 1962 - First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy gives an exclusive televised tour of the White House, hosted by CBS's Charles Collingwood....

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, 1962 - Joseph Gallo, Brooklyn racketeer, was ordered today to serve a three-year term at Rikers Island Penitentiary for coercion...

Feb. 14, 1962 - Richard M. Nixon carried his campaign for the Governorship of California to Mariposa today. The former Vice President...

Feb. 14, 1962 - New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller said today that the question of whether his pending divorce would be a political...

Feb. 14, 1962 - State Department authorities said today the U.S. was still trying to get an accounting from Communist China of American...

Feb. 14, 1962 - Francis Gary Powers can testify before Congressional committees and talk with newsmen after he completes “important...

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, 1962 - Following are main points of President Kennedy’s news conference today: Summit — He said he would attend a...

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, 1962 - United States destroyer escorts will arrive at Danang in South Vietnam this week to bolster the South Vietnamese Navy’s...

Feb. 13, 1962 - The Republican National Committee called on President Kennedy today to “make a full report to the American people” on...

Feb. 12, 1962 - Maine Senator Margaret Chase Smith (pictured) suggested today that leading Republican Presidential aspirants were seeking...

Feb. 12, 1962 - President Kennedy said today that it was essential that women workers be assured of pay that reflected the services they...

Feb. 11, 1962 - The various shades of conservative opinion will be reviewed by CBS on Thursday, Feb. 22, at 10 p.m. The hour-long show,...

Feb. 11, 1962 - A memorial to the late General of the Army George C. Marshall (pictured in 1945) as author of the plan that made possible...

Feb. 11, 1962 - U.S. military personnel on reconnaissance in central Vietnam have run into hostile aborigines, belonging to the Katu...