1960s Timeline

May 19, 1962 - Madison Square Garden became a blur of dancers, singers, actors, and musicians this morning and afternoon as show business...

May 19, 1962 - President Kennedy’s remarks at the dedication of the Penn Station South Urban Renewal Project, a cooperative housing...

May 19, 1962 - President Kennedy urged labor unions today to play a partner’s role with government and private groups in undertaking “the...

May 19, 1962 - Three U.S. soldiers were injured today when a grenade exploded near the entrance to their quarters. Eight South Vietnamese...

May 19, 1962 - The national honorary chairman of the 1962 Christmas seal campaign of the National Tuberculosis Association will be Mrs....

May 18, 1962 - In a speech to collective farmers in central Bulgaria, Soviet Premier Khrushchev declared that U.S. forces would be driven...

May 17, 1962 - President Kennedy gave the United States’ European allies a reassurance and a warning today. The reassurance was that the...

May 17, 1962 - Project Mercury officials announced tonight that the three-orbit flight of Lieut. Comdr. Scott Carpenter (pictured right...

May 17, 1962 - In a speech before the Conference on Trade Policy, President Kennedy discussed this country’s relationship with our...

May 17, 1962 - There is “a good deal left undone” in the civil rights field, President Kennedy acknowledged today. On the eighth...

May 17, 1962 - Caroline Kennedy and three young friends, two boys and a girl, took turns riding two ponies on the south lawn of the White...

May 17, 1962 - President Kennedy will go to New York City at 5 p.m. tomorrow for a 3-day visit. He will go directly to the Carlyle Hotel....

May 17, 1962 - President Kennedy said today that the United States did not have warning systems against intercontinental ballistic...

May 17, 1962 - U.S. Army helicopters carried South Vietnamese troops to mopping-up operations today in Long An Province, 20 miles...

May 15, 1962 - South Vietnam will not request American combat troops at this stage of the Southeast Asian crisis, a high American source...

May 15, 1962 - President Kennedy moved today to back up his diplomatic efforts to preserve the independence of Laos by ordering 4,000...

May 14, 1962 - Sardar, Mrs. Kennedy’s gift horse from Pakistan, has been flown to Washington, kept in quarantine, and taken to the...

May 14, 1962 - Mrs. Marjorie L. French of Topeka, Kan., was honored by President Kennedy today as teacher of the year. Mrs. French, a...

May 13, 1962 - Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy is selling eyeglasses on Madison Avenue. Although the First Lady may be unaware of it, her name...

May 13, 1962 - United States helicopters carried more than 1,000 South Vietnamese soldiers into the marshlands of the Mekong Delta...