Kennedy to South Vietnam: We'll Help You Resist Reds
Oct. 26, 1961 - President Kennedy has reassured South Vietnam of his determination to help it resist Communist attacks and preserve its...
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- 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
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...
- Oct 21, 2021
Kennedy to Witness Amphibious Exercises in San Diego
Oct. 21, 1961 - President Kennedy will witness Navy and Marine Corps amphibious exercises at San Diego, Calif., on Nov. 18, the White...
- Oct 21, 2021
Kennedy Spokesman: Anyone Who Attacks U.S. Will Be Destroyed
Oct. 21, 1961 - The U.S. is so strong and its power so well-deployed that an aggressor making a sneak nuclear attack would invite...
- Oct 21, 2021
General Taylor Tours Fighting Zones in South Vietnam
Oct. 21, 1961 - Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor (pictured with South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem) and his chief aides made an extensive air...
- Oct 19, 2021
East German Communists Reward Children for Informing
Oct. 19, 1961 - The Communists are offering prizes to children who betray people, including family members, trying to escape from East...
- Oct 19, 2021
North Vietnamese Delegation Assails U.S. on Taylor Trip
Oct. 19, 1961 - The Communist North Vietnamese delegation at the Laotian conference in Geneva assailed the United States today for having...
- Oct 18, 2021
Eisenhower: West Embraces Spiritual Values that Communists Deny
Oct. 18, 1961 - Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower (pictured the day before his inauguration in 1953) said today that the Western...
- Oct 18, 2021
Highlights of Khrushchev Speech in Moscow
Oct. 18, 1961 - Following are highlights of Premier Khrushchev’s speech yesterday at the 22nd congress of the Soviet Communist party in...
- Oct 18, 2021
President Diem Places South Vietnam in “State of Emergency”
Oct. 18, 1961 - President Ngo Dinh Diem (pictured) placed South Vietnam in a “state of emergency” today after announcing that Col. Hoang...
- Oct 17, 2021
U.S. to Soviets: Don’t Explode 50-Megaton Weapon
Oct. 17, 1961 - The U.S. called upon the Soviet Union today to reconsider the planned explosion of a fifty-megaton atomic weapon. Such an...
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