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Nov 16, 2021

"Crazy" Joe Gallo Convicted of Extortion, Conspiracy

Nov. 16, 1961 - Joseph Gallo, 32-year-old gangland figure and jukebox racketeer, was found guilty of attempted extortion and conspiracy...

Nov 16, 2021

President Kennedy's Plan for Vietnam

Nov. 16, 1961 - President Kennedy has decided on the measures that the U.S. is prepared to take to strengthen South Vietnam against...

Nov 14, 2021

Gangland Leader Joseph Gallo Sent to Jail

Nov. 14, 1961 - Joseph Gallo, the 32-year-old gangland figure on trial for conspiracy and attempted extortion, was remanded to jail today...

Nov 12, 2021

Air Force Flies Reconnaissance Missions over South Vietnam

Nov. 12, 1961 - Reliable informants said today that U.S. Air Force jets were flying reconnaissance missions over South Vietnam to...

Nov 11, 2021

Viet Cong Have Bases in Cambodia

Nov. 11, 1961 - Military intelligence sources in South Vietnam estimate that 6,000 Communist troops occupy a number of bases in Cambodia....

Nov 9, 2021

Air Force Strengthens South Vietnam's Defenses against Reds

Nov. 9, 1961 - The U.S. Air Force has begun a huge supply and training program in Saigon to strengthen South Vietnam’s defenses against...

Nov 6, 2021

Viet Cong Terrorize Malaria-Control Teams

Nov. 6, 1961 - The Government’s malaria-control teams have taken heavy losses in South Vietnam’s protracted jungle war with Communist...

Nov 5, 2021

Nine Escape East Berlin, Family Left Behind

Nov. 5, 1961 - Thirty East Germans attempted to break through the barbed wire to reach West Berlin today. The fire of an East German...

Nov 4, 2021

U.S. Pushing Reforms in South Vietnam as Conditional to Aid

Nov. 4, 1961 - Officials sources indicated today that the U.S. would press South Vietnam to undertake major economic, social, and...

Nov 3, 2021

TV: Guerrilla-Warfare Techniques Highlighted on CBS

Nov. 3, 1961 - A two-part study of guerrilla warfare techniques will be shown on “The Twentieth Century” on CBS-TV Sunday, Nov. 12 and...

Nov 3, 2021

Kennedy Opposed to Ground Troops in Vietnam

Nov. 3, 1961 - President Kennedy remains strongly opposed to the dispatch of American combat troops to South Vietnam, it was reported in...

Nov 1, 2021

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Nov 1, 2021

Government on the Offensive in South Vietnam

Nov. 1, 1961 - More than 500 Vietnamese Communist guerrillas are reported to have been killed in clashes with Government forces in recent...

Oct 31, 2021

Former President and Mrs. Truman Arrive in Capital

Oct. 31, 1961 - Former President and Mrs. Harry S. Truman arrived in Washington today for a 3-day round of events that will include...

Oct 31, 2021

Rayburn Goes Home to End His Days Among Friends and Neighbors

Oct. 31, 1961 - House Speaker Sam Rayburn (pictured last May) went home to Bonham, Texas by ambulance today. The Democratic leader had...

Oct 31, 2021

What if a 50-Megaton Bomb Exploded Over Manhattan?

Oct. 31, 1961 - If exploded in the air over downtown Manhattan, a 50-megaton bomb would destroy homes as far away as Passaic, N.J. and...

Oct 30, 2021

Khrushchev Warns Britain on Nuclear War

Oct. 30, 1961 - Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev warned Britain today that that nation “may be among the first to experience the destructive...

Oct 30, 2021

White House: U.S. Nuclear Arsenal Superior to Any Nation

Oct. 30, 1961 - A White House statement on the Soviet Union’s explosion of a large nuclear device today cast doubt on the military...

Oct 30, 2021

Vatican Condemns Soviet Explosion as “True Face” of Communism

Oct. 30, 1961 - Dismay and outrage spread through much of the world today as the Soviet Union carried out its huge nuclear explosion....

Oct 30, 2021

Nixon Won’t Run for President in ’64, Will Support “Strongest Candidate”

Oct. 30, 1961 - Richard M. Nixon advised Governor Rockefeller today to prove himself the Republican party’s strongest Presidential...