Video: 'CBS News: Kennedy/Khrushchev summit (1961)' (aired June 4, 1961, at 6:00 p.m. EDT)

(Saturday, June 3, 1961, 12:45 p.m.-6:45 p.m. Central European Time; during the Cold War) — U.S. President John F. Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev began a two-day summit today in Vienna, Austria, meeting for about four hours in total at the U.S. Embassy to discuss numerous issues in the relationship between their countries.

Although described in the press as “cordial,” the first day’s meeting between the young American president and the older Soviet leader was generally hostile as Khrushchev, 67, relentlessly attacked both Kennedy, 43, and the U.S. economic system.

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After a state dinner in the Schönbrunn Palace that evening (8:15-11 p.m. CET), the two men would meet again on Sunday, June 4 (10:15 a.m.-3:15 p.m. CET), at the Soviet Embassy in Vienna.

Video: 'ABC News 45/85 part 1 (Original Broadcast Version)' (June 3, 1961, at 1:25:02)