httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WbYKkcP7vM
(Friday, May 5, 1961, 3:30pm ET) — President John F. Kennedy hailed his nation’s first manned shot into space today, and pledged “a substantially larger effort in that field” during a news conference. Continue reading JFK pledges bigger U.S. space effort
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlpN0_vEvQ4
“Shadow Play” (part one)
(Friday, May 5, 1961, 10 p.m. ET) — A man (Dennis Weaver) convicted of murder tries to convince those about to execute him that it’s all just a recurring nightmare of his on tonight’s episode of The Twilight Zone. Continue reading Tonight on TV: ‘The Twilight Zone’
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sw1KVR6bnaI
(Sunday, April 30, 1961) — Drake travels to China to investigate the disappearance of an eminent doctor who had been trying to escape the Communist regime on tonight’s episode of Danger Man.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2AZH4FeGsc
Wide World of Sports Intro 1978
(Saturday, April 29, 1961) — ABC’S Wide World of Sports, a sports anthology TV series hosted by Jim McKay, debuted today on ABC-TV.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5raNKgphsJM
“The Silence” (part one)
(Friday, April 28, 1961, 10 p.m. ET) — A man (Liam Sullivan) makes a bet that he can go without speaking for a year on tonight’s episode of The Twilight Zone. Continue reading Tonight on TV: ‘The Twilight Zone’
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZYfeYhQ9eU
JFK speech on secret societies + transcript/subtitles
(Thursday, April 27, 1961) — President Kennedy told American newspaper publishers in New York tonight that his administration intends to be candid about his errors following the failed Bay of Pigs invasion. As a wise man once said, Kennedy recalled, “an error doesn’t become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.” “We intend,” he assured, “to accept full responsibility for our errors; and we expect you to point them out when we miss them.”
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgswymaBuDk
(Tuesday, April 25, 1961) — Yojimbo, a period drama film directed by Akira Kurosawa about a ronin (masterless samurai) who arrives in a small town where competing crime lords make their money from gambling, opened today in Japan.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r44auGtBkLw
“The Rip Van Winkle Caper” (part one)
(Friday, April 21, 1961, 10 p.m. ET) — A gang of gold thieves use suspended animation to escape to the future on tonight’s episode of The Twilight Zone. Continue reading Tonight on TV: ‘The Twilight Zone’
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qXZp8bxpNY
(Thursday, April 20, 1961) — President Kennedy, following the anti-Castro Bay of Pigs invasion had been crushed, said today that United States’ restraint is “not inexhaustible” and that we do not intend to abandon Cuba to communism (CLICK HERE to watch Kennedy’s Apr. 20, 1961, speech).
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKlnM_n1s1E Cuban exile invaders surrender (at 5:00)
(Wednesday, April 19, 1961, afternoon) — At the Bay of Pigs, Cuban exile invaders surrendered.
