U.S. Warns Soviets on Berlin: We Will Defend Our Rights
July 18, 1961 - The United States has warned the Soviet Union that it will defend its rights in Berlin. In a note to Moscow, the U.S....
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Jul 17, 2021
Chicago Police Appeal for Calm Amidst Racial Strife
July 17, 1961 - James B. Conlisk (pictured), Superintendent of the Police, appealed today for a sense of community responsibility to ease...
Jul 16, 2021
Racial Tension in Chicago
July 16, 1961 - Two hundred policemen arrested nine white men today at Rainbow Beach in Chicago. The arrests were made for refusing to...
Jul 16, 2021
Special Program on Berlin Crisis on CBS-TV to Air Aug. 11
July 16, 1961 - A special 60-minute news program on the Berlin situation will be televised Aug. 11 at 8:30 p.m. on CBS. A major part of...
Jul 16, 2021
South Vietnamese Troops Kill Over 185 Viet Cong in Bloody Fighting
July 16, 1961 - South Vietnamese Government troops crushed a Communist guerrilla force today in the bloodiest battle since South Vietnam...
Jul 15, 2021
RFK Warns Khrushchev: Don't Underestimate Americans
July 15, 1961 - The U.S. launched its ninth Polaris missile submarine today with a warning to Soviet Premier Khrushchev that America "can...
Jul 14, 2021
Goldwater Charges Kennedy Administration with "Drifting"
July 14, 1961 - Senator Barry Goldwater charged the Kennedy Administration today with supporting a foreign policy of "drifting,"...
Jul 14, 2021
Grissom Likely Choice for Next Week's Spaceflight
July 14, 1961 - Two astronauts intensified preparation today for a rocket flight that will send one of them briefly into space next week....
Jul 13, 2021
Movies: Cast for "Advise and Consent" Mostly Set
July 13, 1961 - Franchot Tone will portray the President and Burgess Meredith a civil servant in Otto Preminger's forthcoming adaptation...
Jul 11, 2021
Nixon Praises Chambers as Solid Anti-Communist
July 11, 1961 - Former Vice President Richard M. Nixon (pictured right in 1948) praised Whittaker Chambers today as a man who had the...
Jul 11, 2021
Whittaker Chambers Dead at 60
July 11, 1961 - Whittaker Chambers (pictured) is dead. The man who branded Alger Hiss as his accomplice in a Soviet spy ring died of a...
Jul 11, 2021
East German Refugees Flood West Berlin
July 11, 1961 - The flight of East Germans to West Berlin has increased substantially in the last few days, refugee officials said today....
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