Video: 'December 29, 1962 - President John F. Kennedy, Orange Bowl Stadium in Miami, Florida'
(Saturday, December 29, 1962) — U.S. President John F. Kennedy, after reviewing the brigade that tried to invade Cuba at the Bay of Pigs in April 1961, told a highly emotional crowd of Cuban exiles today at Miami’s Orange bowl that the flag of the Bay of Pigs Brigade “will be returned” to a free Havana. Continue reading Kennedy addresses Cubans in Orange Bowl ceremony 50 years ago today (1962)
Video: 'Lady Bird Waltz'
(Thursday, December 22, 1912) — Lady Bird Johnson, the wife of U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson (who served from 1963 to 1969), was born Claudia Alta Taylor today in Karnack, Texas, a town in Harrison County, near the state’s border with Louisiana.
Video: 'AFTER TWO YEARS: A CONVERSATION WITH THE PRESIDENT'
(Sunday, December 16, 1962, evening) — U.S. President John F. Kennedy said today the Cuban Missile Crisis had made a Soviet-American understanding less likely in the foreseeable future. Continue reading Cuban Missile Crisis darkened hope of peace, JFK says 50 years ago today (1962)
Video: 'Julia Grant - Wiki Article'
(Thursday, December 14, 1902, 11:17 p.m. local time) — Julia Boggs Dent Grant, wife of the 18th President of the United States, Ulysses S. Grant, and was First Lady of the United States from 1869 to 1877, died tonight in Washington from heat failure. Grant was 76.
Video: Dec. 12, 1962 (at 4:33)
(Wednesday, December 12, 1962, afternoon; during the Vietnam War, part of the the Indochina Wars and the Cold War) — U.S. President John F. Kennedy admitted today in a news conference that there is “great difficulty” in fighting the guerilla war against Communist forces in South Vietam, but the situation is not darker than it was a year ago, “and in some ways lighter.” Continue reading JFK warns of ‘great difficultly’ fighting a guerilla war in Vietnam 50 years ago today (1962)
Video: 'December 6, 1962 - President Kennedy at the Awards Dinner of the Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr.,'
(Thursday, December 6, 1962, evening) — U.S. President John F. Kennedy awarded $225,000 tonight to four foreign scientists, an American educator and a national association for their outstanding work in the field of mental retardation.
The funds and awards were made by the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation for the first time at a dinner in Washington presided over by Adlai E. Stevenson, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.
Video: Dec. 2, 1972 (8:13)
(Saturday, December 2, 1972, during the Vietnam War) — U.S. President Richard Nixon and his top security adviser Henry A. Kissinger held “extensive consultations” today in Key Biscayne, Florida, prior to Kissinger’s departure to resume Vietnam War peace talks in Paris.
(Thursday, November 26, 1942, Thanksgiving Day during World War II) — U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt served notice tonight that the government would begin the nationwide rationing of gasoline to conserve rubber on Dec. 1, as scheduled. Continue reading President Roosevelt orders full ‘gas’ rationing 70 years ago tonight (1942)
Video: 'President John F. Kennedy dedicates Dulles International Airport and Chicago O'Hara Airport'
(Saturday, November 17, 1962) — Washington Dulles International Airport, which serves the Baltimore-Washington-Northern Virginia metropolitan area centered on the District of Columbia, was dedicated today by President John F. Kennedy. It was named after John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State under former President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Video: Nov. 8, 1972 (at 7:29)
(Wednesday, November 8, 1972, the day after the 1972 presidential election) — The day after winning re-election in a huge landslide, U.S. President Richard Nixon orders his cabinet to submit letters of resignation by Friday, November 10, so he can decide which will stay or go in a month’s time.
