1960s Timeline

May 29, 1962 - The chief of the South Vietnamese General Staff said today that the Vietnamese Air Force had bombed the headquarters of...

May 28, 1962 - John F. Kennedy Jr., who began walking about two weeks ago, demonstrated his new skills for his father last Friday. It was...

May 28, 1962 - The nation will observe Memorial Day today with a request by President Kennedy that Americans reserve an hour of their...

May 27, 1962 - Lieut. Comdr. Scott Carpenter returned to the starting point of his space journey at Cape Canaveral today and was honored...

May 26, 1962 - Pravda published today a dramatic account of Lieut. Comdr. Scott Carpenter’s troubles in space but praised the American...

May 26, 1962 - More than 100 children jammed Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy’s office today for a puppet and magic show, then...

May 26, 1962 - U.S Army and Marine helicopters carried Vietnamese troops in a raid today against remnants of two Communist guerrilla...

May 26, 1962 - In the White House Rose Garden today, President Kennedy spoke to members of the National Council of Senior Citizens about...

May 26, 1962 - Lieut. Comdr. Scott Carpenter made the mistake of leaving two control systems in operation in the final phase of his...

May 25, 1962 - The Project Mercury medical team pronounced Lieut. Commander Scott Carpenter today to have come through five hours in...

May 25, 1962 - Two Federal agencies are preparing reports dealing with the possible connection between cigarette smoking and cancer. The...

May 25, 1962 - Here's a clip from President Kennedy’s remarks today to the White House Conference on Conservation held in the State...

May 25, 1962 - Now that Lieut. Comdr. Scott Carpenter has duplicated the success of Lieut. Col. John H. Glenn Jr. on a three-orbit...

May 24, 1962 - It seems fitting that Lieut. Comdr. Scott Carpenter’s reasons for naming his spacecraft Aurora VII are both lofty and...

May 24, 1962 - President Kennedy said today that the courage of Lieutenant Commander Scott Carpenter and the skill and initiative of his...

May 24, 1962 - The overshoot of Lieut. Comdr. Carpenter’s space capsule (pictured left) was said to have been caused by the fact that the...

May 24, 1962 - Lieutenant Commander Scott Carpenter became today the second American astronaut to orbit the earth. His three-orbit trip...

May 24, 1962 - The South Vietnamese Seventh Division continued today to inflict heavy casualties on a Communist guerrilla force trapped...

May 24, 1962 - In Saigon today, a special military tribunal sentenced three Vietnamese to death for having plotted to assassinate the...

May 24, 1962 - Here are President Kennedy's remarks today at the cornerstone-laying ceremony of the Rayburn House Office Building in...