1960s Timeline

Feb. 5, 1962 - Two men whose private lives are not very private compared notes at the White House today. Lieut. Col. John H. Glenn Jr.,...

Feb. 5, 1962 - Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy replied sharply today to members of Japan’s Socialist party who criticized U.S....

Feb. 4, 1962 - George Lincoln Rockwell (pictured), head of the American Nazi party, told a jeering crowd today that he had the right to...

Feb. 4, 1962 - George Romney told a national TV audience today that “the Republican image needs improvement.” In the past, he said, it...

Feb. 4, 1962 - Cuba now has 50 to 100 MIG jet fighters and may be receiving some Soviet bombers and short-range rockets in new arms...

Feb. 4, 1962 - Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy’s six-day visit to Japan began this evening with a noisy welcome at the airport in...

Feb. 4, 1962 - A U.S. Air Force helicopter company carrying Vietnamese troops routed Communist forces today around the village of Hung...

Feb. 4, 1962 - Cuban Premier Fidel Castro charged today that the U.S. embargo on imports from Cuba was “another economic aggression.” In...

Apr. 18, 1962 - President Kennedy and his family arrived in Palm Beach, Fla., this afternoon to begin a 10-day Easter holiday. The...

Feb. 3, 1962 - Edwin A. Walker (pictured in 1957), former Army major general, said today that his race for Governor of Texas was part of...

Feb. 3, 1962 - A proposal to revoke the Virginia charter of the American Nazi party stirred debate in the state’s House of Delegates this...

Feb. 3, 1962 - President Kennedy ordered a ban on almost all trade with Cuba today to deprive Premier Fidel Castro’s regime of an annual...

Feb. 2, 1962 - Edwin A. Walker (pictured right with evangelist Billy James Hargis), former Army major general, filed today as a...

Feb. 2, 1962 - The political credo of George Romney, the new hope of Michigan Republicans, is a mixture of strongly conservative views...

Feb. 2, 1962 - President Kennedy is expected to announce this weekend a ban on all remaining imports from Cuba, which give the Castro...

Feb. 2, 1962 - Dwight D. Eisenhower warned Republicans last night to overhaul the party’s organization and get rid of incompetents if...

Feb. 2, 1962 - More than 3,000 Iowa Republicans turned out last night to welcome Governor Rockefeller (pictured) of New York. They seemed...

Feb. 1, 1962 - President Kennedy told the people of South Vietnam today that the prospects for peace in their country “will brighten...

Feb. 1, 1962 - Here is a brief press statement by Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, who is leaving on a goodwill trip around the world...

Feb. 1, 1962 - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, announced today a “recruiting tour”...