Cuba's Prisoner Trial Continues
Mar. 30, 1962 - Sitting on benches on an outdoor basketball court, nearly 1,200 prisoners captured in the invasion of Cuba last April...
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Mar 29, 2022
2,000 Persons Leave Cuba Every Week
Mar. 29, 1962 - Approximately 2,000 people a week are leaving Cuba. All commercial planes bound for Miami, Mexico City and Kingston,...
Mar 29, 2022
Trial Begins for 1,182 Cuban Prisoners
Mar. 29, 1962 - The Castro Government put 1,182 prisoners on trial today behind closed doors at Principe Prison, in Havana’s suburbs. The...
Mar 14, 2022
Cubans Smuggle Red Chinese Opium into U.S.
Mar. 14, 1962 - Communist Cuba is attempting to demoralize this country and obtain vital U.S. dollars by smuggling opium from Red China...
Mar 14, 2022
Castro Urges "Communist Spirit" in Cuba
Mar. 14, 1962 - Premier Fidel Castro urged young Cubans today to develop a more intense “Communist spirit” and declared that they would...
Mar 12, 2022
Castro Rations Rice and Beans in Cuba
Mar. 12, 1962 - Premier Fidel Castro announced today nationwide rationing of rice and beans, basic items of the Cuban diet. He also...
Mar 11, 2022
Castro Claims Cuba Invented Baseball
Mar. 11, 1962 - Cuba has put a claim on the invention of baseball. A recent speech by Premier Fidel Castro and a subsequent editorial in...
Mar 5, 2022
Former WWII Soviet General in Command Position in Cuba
Mar. 5, 1962 - Enrique Lister (pictured left with Ernesto “Che” Guevara), who led a Communist corps in the Spanish civil war and served...
Feb 22, 2022
Hoover: No Compromise With Communists
Feb. 22, 1962 - J. Edgar Hoover said today that “there can be no compromise with the Communists” and that “the sooner every American...
Feb 21, 2022
Goldwater: Cold War Victory to be Determined by "Power of Conviction"
Feb. 21, 1962 - Senator Barry Goldwater urged the U.S. today not to “compete in bragging” with the Soviet Union. The Arizona Republican...
Feb 21, 2022
Crew of Destroyer "Remey" Get Respite from "Cold War"
Feb. 21, 1962 - The U.S. destroyer Remey (pictured) sailed into port in New York today for a week’s respite from service in the “cold...
Feb 19, 2022
Goldwater Praises McNamara, Hits Kennedy on Cuba
Feb. 19, 1962 - Senator Barry Goldwater praised Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara today as “one of the best Secretaries of Defense...
Feb 18, 2022
Nina Khrushchev Pleads for Disarmament in Message to American Women
Feb. 18, 1962 - Mrs. Nina Petrovna Khrushchev (pictured with the First Lady last June in Austria), wife of the Soviet Premier, pleaded...
Feb 18, 2022
Specialists Cast Doubt on National Shelter Program
Feb. 18, 1962 - A pamphlet contending that any national shelter program would be almost useless has been issued by eight specialists who...
Feb 17, 2022
McCone Replaces Bissell with Richard Helms at CIA
Feb. 17, 1962 - John A. McCone (pictured), the new director of the C.I.A., has begun to rebuild the agency’s high command by putting a...
Feb 14, 2022
U.S. Seeking Information from Chinese on Missing Korean War Soldiers
Feb. 14, 1962 - State Department authorities said today the U.S. was still trying to get an accounting from Communist China of American...
Feb 9, 2022
James Cagney Narrates Documentary on Communism "The Road to the Wall"
Feb. 9, 1962 - Narrated by actor James Cagney, "The Road to the Wall" explores the steady march of Communism through the years. It begins...
Jan 31, 2022
President Kennedy Pleased with OAS Exclusion of Cuba
Jan. 31, 1962 - President Kennedy expressed satisfaction today with the actions taken against Cuba by the Organization of American...
Jan 30, 2022
Communist China Excoriates Robert F. Kennedy
Jan. 30, 1962 - Communist China’s propaganda campaign against President Kennedy was extended today to Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy,...
Jan 30, 2022
Organization of American States Votes Cuba Out
Jan. 30, 1962 - Foreign ministers of the Organization of American States voted today by a two-thirds majority to exclude Cuba from...
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