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Oct 28, 2021

Secretary Connally May Run for Governor of Texas

Oct. 28, 1961 - The Secretary of the Navy, John B. Connally Jr., may give up the office next year to run for Governor of Texas. There are...

Oct 28, 2021

Khrushchev Favors Memorial to Stalin’s Victims

Oct. 28, 1961 - Premier Khrushchev has come out in favor of the construction of a memorial in Moscow to honor the victims of the...

Oct 28, 2021

President Kennedy Issues 1961 Thanksgiving Proclamation

Oct. 28, 1961 - President Kennedy called on all citizens today to observe Thanksgiving Day Nov. 23 in a manner “not only to preserve our...

Oct 28, 2021

U.S. and Soviet Tanks Pull Back from Berlin Dividing Line

Oct. 28, 1961 - United States and Soviet tanks pulled back from Berlin’s dividing line today after facing each other for 16 hours through...

Oct 27, 2021

1960 Republican Delegates Prefer Goldwater for 1964

Oct. 27, 1961 - A preference for Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona for the Republican Presidential nomination in 1964 has been indicated...

Oct 27, 2021

Vice President Johnson: Communists Undermine U.S.

Oct. 27, 1961 - Vice President Johnson declared today that “good Americans” are unwittingly aiding the Communists by planting “seeds of...

Oct 27, 2021

New York City Mayor Wagner Visits President Kennedy

Oct. 27, 1961 - Mayor Wagner (left) of New York City came to Washington today and won new support from President Kennedy for his...

Oct 27, 2021

🚨U.S. and Soviet Tanks Confront Each Other for First Time in Berlin

Oct. 27, 1961 - United States and Soviet tanks confonted each other today for the first time in history. They were less than 100 yards...

Oct 26, 2021

🚨Thirty-Three Soviet Tanks Move into East Berlin in Show of Force

Oct. 26, 1961 - Thirty-three Soviet medium tanks, manned by Soviet troops, moved into the center of East Berlin today. It was a show of...

Oct 25, 2021

Pulitzer Prize Winner Carl Sandburg Visits President Kennedy

Oct. 25, 1961 - Carl Sandburg (left), Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and biographer of Abraham Lincoln, called at the White House today to...

Oct 25, 2021

President Kennedy Approves Nuclear Explosion for Peaceful Use

Oct. 25, 1961 - President Kennedy gave his approval today for an underground nuclear explosion in the salt caverns of New Mexico as the...

Oct 25, 2021

State Department Notes “Serious Development” in Berlin

Oct. 25, 1961 - The State Department announced today that the Soviet commander in Berlin had rejected a protest by the U.S. commander...

Oct 24, 2021

Kennedy to Receive Advice on Broadcasts from TV Producer Fred Coe

Oct. 24, 1961 - The White House said today that President Kennedy would receive advice on some of his future telecasts from Fred Coe, New...

Oct 24, 2021

Eisenhower Calls Peace Corps “Juvenile Experiment”

Oct. 24, 1961 - Former President Eisenhower accused the Kennedy Administration today of doing “a good job of confusing me and all my...

Oct 23, 2021

Rockefeller: Kennedy Not “Unbeatable” in 1964

Oct. 23, 1961 - “I don’t think anybody is unbeatable,” Governor Rockefeller (right) of New York said today when asked whether a...

Oct 23, 2021

🚨Soviets Detonate Most Powerful Nuclear Explosion in History

Oct. 23, 1961 - The Soviet Union conducted the largest man-made explosion in history today by detonating a thermonuclear bomb with a...

Oct 22, 2021

Video: “Operation Readiness” Highlights Cold War Efforts

Video: “Operation Readiness” Highlights Cold War Efforts Oct. 22, 1961 - “Operation Readiness” is a film produced by the U.S. Army about...

Oct 22, 2021

President Kennedy Most Voracious Reader Since Theodore Roosevelt

Oct. 22, 1961 - Perhaps the White House’s most voracious reader since Teddy Roosevelt, President Kennedy daily digests a mountain of...

Oct 22, 2021

President Kennedy Gives Up Short Cigars

Oct. 22, 1961 - President Kennedy has given up the short cigars he favored when he first entered the White House and now smokes a new...

Oct 22, 2021

U.S. Soldiers with Fixed Bayonets Escort Diplomat into East Berlin

Oct. 22, 1961 - Nine armed United States soldiers moved into East Berlin twice today to enforce the right of an American diplomat to...