1961
Operation Mongoose: A CIA Proposal, Approved by the Pentagon, to Kill Innocent Americans or Cuban Refugees and Blame it on Castro to Provoke an Invasion
Failure at the Bay of Pigs did not deter the Kennedy administration from seeking ways to topple Castro. In November 1961 Operation Mongoose was created …
President Kennedy Issues Document 7277 Entitled ‘Freedom From War: The US Program for General and Complete Disarmament in a Peaceful World’
In the interest of peace, many Americans have been persuaded to support disarmament programs and to create as a substitute for each nation’s military a …
President JFK’s UN Address on Weather Modification
“if the Soviets control space they can control earth, as in past centuries the nation that controlled the seas dominated the continents.” Senator John F. …
UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld Killed in Mysterious Plane Crash en route to Cease-fire Negotiations in Uranium-rich Congo
On September 18 1961, the Ndola United Nations DC-6 crashed in what is now Zambia, killing Dag Hammarskjöld — the second Secretary-General of the United …
The Plane Carrying the UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld was Shot Down over Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia)
[Harold Julian, the only (temporary) survivor of the plane crash that killed United Nations secretary general Dag Hammarskjold:] “[There was] an explosion aboard the plane …
Senator Strom Thurmond: “The aim and purpose… is now world socialism, which communism seeks to achieve through revolution… socialism… through evolution.”
Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina in a letter to the editor of the Washington Post penned these words: “…Both socialism and communism derive from the …
Congressman John Ashbrook of Ohio Delivered a Speech to the House Entitled “The Myth of Federal Aid to Education without Control.”
Congressman John M. Ashbrook of Ohio expressed his concern over the radical shift in the direction of education before the U.S. House of Representatives in …
Torcaso v. Watkins: The Supreme Court Ruled it Unconstitutional for a Person Seeking Public Office to Have to Declare Their Belief in the Existence of God
In A.D. 1961, the United States Supreme Court decided the case of Torcaso v Watkins. The case hinged on the right of a man who …
President John F. Kennedy’s Man on the Moon Speech
President John F. Kennedy delivered this speech, “Special Message to the Congress on Urgent National Needs,” on May 25, 1961 before a joint session of Congress. …