1960s Timeline

Apr. 17, 1962 - Premier Fidel Castro hailed today the failure of the C.I.A.-backed invasion attempt exactly one year ago as...

Apr. 11, 1962 - President Kennedy said today that the U.S. Government would not negotiate with Cuba to ransom the rebel prisoners...

Apr. 8, 1962 - The 1,179 prisoners seized in the invasion of Cuba a year ago have been convicted of treason. But the Castro regime is...

Mar. 30, 1962 - Sitting on benches on an outdoor basketball court, nearly 1,200 prisoners captured in the invasion of Cuba last April...

Mar. 29, 1962 - Approximately 2,000 people a week are leaving Cuba. All commercial planes bound for Miami, Mexico City and Kingston,...

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. 21, 1962 - Richard M. Nixon declined today in the face of a Presidential denial to alter his contention that Senator John F. Kennedy...

Mar. 21, 1962 - President Kennedy said today that he had no evidence of an impending Cuban attack on the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo...

Mar. 19, 1962 - Richard M. Nixon has charged in a new book that President Kennedy endangered security restrictions in 1960 with his...

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, 1962 - Premier Fidel Castro urged young Cubans today to develop a more intense “Communist spirit” and declared that they would...

Mar. 12, 1962 - Premier Fidel Castro announced today nationwide rationing of rice and beans, basic items of the Cuban diet. He also...

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, 1962 - Enrique Lister (pictured left with Ernesto “Che” Guevara), who led a Communist corps in the Spanish civil war and served...

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

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

Jan. 31, 1962 - President Kennedy expressed satisfaction today with the actions taken against Cuba by the Organization of American...

Jan. 30, 1962 - Foreign ministers of the Organization of American States voted today by a two-thirds majority to exclude Cuba from...

Jan. 25, 1962 - Secretary of State Dean Rusk urged the conference of American foreign ministers in Uruguay today to adopt a plan “to...