Entertainers Rehearse for President's Birthday Celebration
May 19, 1962 - Madison Square Garden became a blur of dancers, singers, actors, and musicians this morning and afternoon as show business...
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May 19, 2022
May 19, 1962 - JFK Dedicates NYC Housing Project
May 19, 1962 - President Kennedy’s remarks at the dedication of the Penn Station South Urban Renewal Project, a cooperative housing...
May 19, 2022
President Speaks at Housing Project Dedication in NYC
May 19, 1962 - President Kennedy urged labor unions today to play a partner’s role with government and private groups in undertaking “the...
May 19, 2022
Three U.S. Soldiers Injured in Saigon Grenade Attack
May 19, 1962 - Three U.S. soldiers were injured today when a grenade exploded near the entrance to their quarters. Eight South Vietnamese...
May 19, 2022
Mrs. Kennedy Is Honorary Chair of 1962 Christmas Seal Campaign
May 19, 1962 - The national honorary chairman of the 1962 Christmas seal campaign of the National Tuberculosis Association will be Mrs....
May 18, 2022
Khrushchev Predicts U.S. Defeat in Vietnam
May 18, 1962 - In a speech to collective farmers in central Bulgaria, Soviet Premier Khrushchev declared that U.S. forces would be driven...
May 17, 2022
President Says European Allies Must Do Their Share
May 17, 1962 - President Kennedy gave the United States’ European allies a reassurance and a warning today. The reassurance was that the...
May 17, 2022
NASA Postpones Carpenter's Orbital Flight
May 17, 1962 - Project Mercury officials announced tonight that the three-orbit flight of Lieut. Comdr. Scott Carpenter (pictured right...
May 17, 2022
May 17, 1962 - JFK Speaks at National Trade Conference
May 17, 1962 - In a speech before the Conference on Trade Policy, President Kennedy discussed this country’s relationship with our...
May 17, 2022
President Says "A Good Deal Left Undone" in Civil Rights
May 17, 1962 - There is “a good deal left undone” in the civil rights field, President Kennedy acknowledged today. On the eighth...
May 17, 2022
Pony Rides for the President's Children
May 17, 1962 - Caroline Kennedy and three young friends, two boys and a girl, took turns riding two ponies on the south lawn of the White...
May 17, 2022
Busy Weekend Schedule for President Kennedy
May 17, 1962 - President Kennedy will go to New York City at 5 p.m. tomorrow for a 3-day visit. He will go directly to the Carlyle Hotel....
May 17, 2022
President Kennedy Says Principal Danger of Missile Attack is from the North
May 17, 1962 - President Kennedy said today that the United States did not have warning systems against intercontinental ballistic...
May 17, 2022
South Vietnam Employs New Propaganda Weapon
May 17, 1962 - U.S. Army helicopters carried South Vietnamese troops to mopping-up operations today in Long An Province, 20 miles...
May 15, 2022
South Vietnam Not Requesting American Combat Troops At This Time
May 15, 1962 - South Vietnam will not request American combat troops at this stage of the Southeast Asian crisis, a high American source...
May 15, 2022
President Orders 4,000 More Troops to Thailand
May 15, 1962 - President Kennedy moved today to back up his diplomatic efforts to preserve the independence of Laos by ordering 4,000...
May 14, 2022
Mrs. Kennedy's Pakistani Horse Out of Quarantine
May 14, 1962 - Sardar, Mrs. Kennedy’s gift horse from Pakistan, has been flown to Washington, kept in quarantine, and taken to the...
May 14, 2022
Topeka Teacher Honored by President Kennedy
May 14, 1962 - Mrs. Marjorie L. French of Topeka, Kan., was honored by President Kennedy today as teacher of the year. Mrs. French, a...
May 13, 2022
First Lady's Sunglasses Start Fashion Fad
May 13, 1962 - Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy is selling eyeglasses on Madison Avenue. Although the First Lady may be unaware of it, her name...
May 13, 2022
Government Soldiers Fail To Flush Viet Cong in Mekong Delta
May 13, 1962 - United States helicopters carried more than 1,000 South Vietnamese soldiers into the marshlands of the Mekong Delta...
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