Maryland Restaurant Owner that Smeared Egg on Demonstrator: “I Was Wrong”
July 13, 1963 - Something extraordinary happened to Robert Fehsenfeld (pictured center), 42, this week: he saw himself in his worst...
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May 4, 2023
U.S. Correspondents Restricted in Vietnam
May 4, 1963 - A potentially explosive document in the hands of a House subcommittee is reported to lay down Administration guidelines for...
Mar 31, 2023
New York Newspaper Strike Ends
Mar. 31, 1963 - New York City’s record 114-day blackout of 8 newspapers ended today as the last of 4 striking unions accepted a new...
Feb 21, 2023
Feb. 21, 1963 - JFK on New York Newspaper Strike
Feb. 21, 1963 - The newspaper blackout in the nation’s largest city, a printers’ strike that has kept New York’s nine major papers shut...
Dec 13, 2022
Walter Cronkite’s CBS Newscast to Expand to Full Hour
Dec. 13, 1962 - A further round in network rivalry in news coverage was foreseen today in CBS’s announcement that next fall it would...
Dec 8, 2022
Newspaper Strike Hits New York City
Dec. 8, 1962 - A newspaper strike hit New York City today at the height of the pre-Christmas advertising season. Printers walked out of...
Nov 20, 2022
Nov. 20, 1962 - JFK Comments on "News Suppression" during Cuban Crisis
Nov. 20, 1962 - President Kennedy responds to accusations of news suppression by his Administration during the Cuban crisis. #media #JFK...
Nov 17, 2022
Nixon Responds to Hiss Charges
Nov. 17, 1962 - Richard M. Nixon questioned today the importance of Alger Hiss’s comments about him on television “when weighed on the...
Nov 12, 2022
Nixon’s Press Secretary Assails ABC Program
Nov. 12, 1962 - Herbert G. Klein (second from right), press secretary to former Vice President Richard M. Nixon, said today that an...
Nov 9, 2022
Los Angeles Times Responds to Nixon Charges
Nov. 9, 1962 - The Los Angeles Times carried a statement by its publisher, Otis Chandler, yesterday in response to Richard M. Nixon’s...
Nov 7, 2022
Nixon Concedes, Gives Bitter Press Conference
Nov. 7, 1962 - Richard M. Nixon conceded defeat today in his quest for the Governorship of California with a telegram to the victor,...
Jun 20, 2022
Walter Winchell Claims Anti-Communist, Anti-Kennedy Columns Censored
June 20, 1962 - Walter Winchell (pictured in 1960) said today that he would resign from the Hearst organization “if I could find some...
May 9, 2022
President Kennedy Remarks on His Treatment by the Press
May 9, 1962 - The President was asked at his news conference today to comment on the press treatment of his Administration from day to...
Apr 5, 2022
Former Gen. Edwin A. Walker Punches Reporter Outside Senate Caucus Room
Apr. 5, 1962 — As Edwin A. Walker left the Senate caucus room today after testifying about Secretary of State Dean Rusk’s role in an...
Mar 14, 2022
Cronkite to Replace Douglas Edwards on CBS Early Evening News
Mar. 14, 1962 - Walter Cronkite, television news correspondent, will replace Douglas Edwards on CBS’s early evening news program starting...
Sep 15, 2021
A Slumping Roger Maris Won't Talk to Press
Sept. 15, 1961 - Roger Maris went to bat nine times in the doubleheader against the Tigers today, which ended in a split decision. Only a...
Sep 9, 2021
Pentagon Disciplines Two Army Officers Over TV Show in West Berlin
Sept. 9, 1961 - The Pentagon took action against two Army officers in Berlin today for having permitted the use of U.S. forces in the...
Sep 7, 2021
Jack Paar in West Berlin to Film TV Show
Sept. 7, 1961 - Fifty armed U.S. soldiers moved rapidly down the street, then took possession of buildings overlooking the East-West...
Jul 27, 2021
Secretary Ribicoff Urges Parents to Limit Childrens' TV Time
July 27, 1961 - Parents were urged by a member of the Cabinet today to "get tough" with children who sit for hours "like a vegetable"...
Jul 25, 2021
TV Networks Clarify Policy on Taped Segments after NASA Telecast Controversy
July 25, 1961 - NBC-TV made known today its plans to avoid the confusion that led to criticism of the telecast of the astronaut launching...
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