Video: 'John F. Kennedy (USA), General Assembly (20 September 1963)'
(Friday, September 20, 1963, 11:00 a.m. EDT) — U.S. President John F. Kennedy urged in a major policy speech before the United Nations today that the United States and Russia become partners in space and put a man on the moon together as a positive step toward ending the Cold War.
Kennedy told the 18th UN General Assembly session that East and West could engage in a “contest of achievement instead of intimidation.”
Video: 'JFK PRESS CONFERENCE #61 (SEPTEMBER 12, 1963)'
(Thursday, September 12, 1963, afternoon EDT; during the Vietnam War, part of the the Indochina Wars and the Cold War) — U.S. President John F. Kennedy placed the Saigon Government on notice today that the United States was not in Vietnam “to see a war lost.”
Video: 'John le Carré- Interview "Spy Who Came In From The Cold" (Merv Griffin Show 1965)'
(Thursday, September 12, 1963) — The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, a Cold War spy novel by John le Carre, went on sale today in Britain.
Video: 'Vietnam a Television History Episode 8' (Aug. 27, 1963, at 13:02)
(Tuesday, August 27, 1963; during the Vietnam War, part of the Indochina Wars and the Cold War) — Cambodia, broke off diplomatic relations with South Vietnam today in indignation over repeated border incidents and over Saigon’s repression of Buddhist leaders.
Video: 'Vietnam War Documentary | 02 Dien Bien Phu | How America Lost' (Aug. 26, 1963, at 44:24)
(Monday, August 26, 1963; during the Vietnam War, part of the Indochina Wars and the Cold War) — Newly arrived U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge met with President Ngo Dinh Diem in Saigon, South Vietnam, today, one day after a massive student revolt smashed by armed police.
Lodge arrived Aug. 22, 1963, the day after Diem cracked down on Buddhist opposition an dplaced the country under martial law.
Video: 'Vietnam War Documentary | 02 Dien Bien Phu | How America Lost' (Aug. 22, 1963, at 44:24)
(Thursday, August 22, 1963, evening; during the Vietnam War, part of the Indochina Wars and the Cold War) — U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge flew into strife-torn Saigon tonight on hurry-up orders from the U.S. government which has sharply denounced yesterday’s government crackdown on Buddhists in South Vietnam.
Video: 'Vietnam a Television History Episode 2' (Aug. 21, 1963, at 39:23)
(Wednesday, August 21, 1963, shortly after midnight local time; during the Vietnam War, part of the Indochina Wars and the Cold War) — The Army of the Republic of Vietnam Special Forces, on orders of President Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu, arrested thousands of monks and nuns today and vandalized Buddhist pagodas across South Vietnam in what became known as the Xa Loi Pagoda raids.
Video: 'First Soviet hydrogen bomb test (1953)'
(Wednesday, August 12, 1953; during the Cold War) — The Soviet Union today conducted a secret test of its first hydrogen bomb at Semipalatinsk Test Site, Kazakhstan.
Video: 'Vietnam a Television History Episode 8' (Aug. 9, 1973, at 40:56)
(Thursday, August 9, 1973; during the Cambodian Civil War, part of Operation Freedom Deal, part of the Vietnam War, part of the Indochina Wars and the Cold War) — Admiral Thomas Moorer, chairman of the Joints Chiefs of Staff, told a Senate armed service committee hearing today that the 1969-1970 secret bombing in supposedly neutral Cambodia was necessary to protect American troops from North Vietnamese forces who launched attacks from Cambodian sanctuaries.
Video: 'Vietnam a Television History Episode 8' (Aug. 6, 1973, at 41:29)
(Monday, August 6, 1973; during the Cambodian Civil War, part of Operation Freedom Deal, part of the Vietnam War, part of the Indochina Wars and the Cold War) — An American B-52 mistakenly dropped its bombs today on Neak Luong, the river town just 30 miles from Phnom Penh, Cambodia. At least 137 Cambodians were killed and another 268 were wounded.
