History Diaries

Photograph: November 10, 1963. President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy visit with family friends, Benjamin C. Bradlee (far left), Antoinette Bradlee (second from left), and Paul Fout (far right), at the Kennedy family residence, Wexford, in Atoka, Virginia. Kennedy family dog, Clipper, sits in center.

The United States has the ability to deliver intercontinental nuclear bombs carrying the explosive equivalent of “thousands of millions of tons of T.N.T.,” a government spokesman disclosed today. Dr. Alain Enthoven, deputy assistant secretary of defense, talked about this development at closing sessions of an international symposium organized to consider moral issues associated with nuclear warfare. More than 450 Roman Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish educators and students attended the three-day inter-faith conference held under auspices of West Baden college, a theological school of Chicago’s Loyola university.

Enthoven appeared on the same platform with Victor P. Karpov, first secretary of the Soviet Union’s Washington embassy, who listened intently to disclosures about the strength of America’s nuclear arsenal. The Russian diplomat spoke first at the meeting termed “A Nuclear War Institute.” In his talk on “To Live or Survive,” Karpov talked about his own nation’s advances in the field of nuclear weaponry. He said the Soviet Union has nuclear bombs “of 100 megaton range,” or the explosive equivalent of 100,000,000 tons of T.N.T. “It is estimated that the total quantity of nuclear explosives in the world is now equal to 12,500,000 bombs of the yield of the one that was dropped over Hiroshima, or to 250 billion tons of T.N.T.,” he reported. “This makes more than 80 tons of explosive for every man, woman or child now living on our planet.”

Russia’s development of the 100 megaton range bomb has come since its test firing of a 50 megaton weapon in 1961, Karpov disclosed in pointing out that the Hiroshima atomic bomb of World War II was equal to only 20,000 tons of T.N.T. “Thus, only one large contemporary bomb is able to erase from the earth, big cities and whole regions with millions of inhabitants,” he said. In his talk Karpov elaborated in great detail about the horrors that would accompany a nuclear war. According to cautious estimates, he said, approximately one billion persons would be killed in such a conflict. He then contended that total disarmament is the only way to peace and warned about the danger of relying on bomb shelters as a means of survival from nuclear attack.

Japan mourned its dead from the twin disasters of a coal mine explosion and triple train wreck that killed 611 persons on Saturday. The toll in the mine explosion on the southern island of Kyushu was put at 449 miners dead, 450 injured, and 7 missing. The train wreck left 162 dead, including an American student, and 70 injured. It occurred 15 miles south of Tokyo six hours after the mine disaster.

Japan was spared another disaster today when a crowded express train rammed into the rear of another express near Hiroshima. Two persons were injured, officials said. National railway officials said both trains in today’s collision were only a half mile out of a station and that one was halted while the other was moving at low speed. A spark apparently ignited a cloud of coal dust in the underground tunnels of the Miike mine in Omuta on Saturday. Many miners were burned by a giant fireball. Others suffocated in carbon monoxide fumes left by the explosion. The explosion occurred at the afternoon shift change when more than 1,300 miners were underground-twice the regular work force.

As the news of the explosion at Japan’s largest and most modern mine spread across the nation, disaster struck again. A crowded passenger train speeding toward Tokyo smashed into a derailed freight train, then leaped across the tracks into the fourth and fifth cars of a commuter train coming from the opposite direction. Steel coaches were slashed and crumpled. Some of the bodies were so badly mangled identification was only possible through fingerprinting. Among the dead was William Scott, 28, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, a student at Tokyo’s International Christian university.

Madame Ngô Đình Nhu decided today that her three younger children now in Rome should not come to Los Angeles until later this week. The decision was made in a telephone conversation with her brother-in-law, Archbishop Pierre Martin Ngô Đình Thục, who is caring for them, Mrs. Allen Chase, her hostess said. The two younger children, Lệ Quyên , 4, and Quỳnh, 11, do not know their father is dead, said Mrs. Chase. She said the shock of Madame Nhu’s bereavement, the coup which toppled the government headed by her brother-in-law, Ngô Đình Diệm, and her husband, and her alleged lack of funds, have left her in a state of shock and upset. Mrs. Chase said that Madame Nhu now wants to wait until she has regained some composure before the youngsters come.

Madame Nhu left the seclusion of the Beverly Hills villa where she has been staying to attend a private Mass said for her late husband, Ngô Đình Nhu, and his brother Ngô Đình Diệm who were slain in the Vietnam revolt.

The Catholic Church in South Vietnam has pledged its support of the new government and is trying to dispel its tarnished image. caused by association with the regime of the late Ngô Đình Diệm, a devout Catholic.

Russell R. DeYoung, president of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber company and one of a group of 21 American businessmen who met with Premier Nikita Khrushchev, says that his visit to Moscow has swung him around to favoring the United States wheat deal with the Soviet Union. Keith Funston, president of the New York Stock exchange, also sees merit in the grain sale but wants the Russians to pay “cash on the barrelhead.”

The West German foreign ministry announces the signing of a trade agreement with communist Hungary providing for an exchange of trade missions and for long term credits. It is the third accord signed by the Bonn government with communist European satellite nations with which it has no diplomatic ties. West Germany leads western nations in trade with the eastern bloc.

European allies of the United States oppose the American plan to tighten credit facilities to Communist nations importing from the West.

Rep. Wayne L. Hays (D-Ohio) says he took the head waiter of the House of Representatives dining room on an expense paid trip to Paris to serve as the American delegation’s liaison man with a parliamentarians’ conference of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The trip by the waiter, Ernest Petinaud, has caused comment in Washington. “Petinaud, who is French-speaking, is on vacation,” Hays said. He acted as a liaison man between the American delegation and NATO headquarters, taking and bringing messages.

Mexican Communists have declared their opposition to Gustavo Diaz Ordaz as the next president of Mexico and have threatened civil war if his nomination is pursued.

Latin nations are looking with favor upon a new format which would change the Alliance of Progress from “just another American-aid program.”

Riding through streets of cheering Romans, Pope Paul VI took formal possession of the Basilica of St. John Lateran, the cathedral church which is his see as bishop of Rome, In a three-hour ceremony.

A comparison in the world’s leading cities of prices today with those of a year ago shows that living costs are rising steadily. nearly everywhere.

Russia’s top scientist says that the Soviet’s new space vehicle launched November 1 has opened the way for manned round trips to the moon and inner planets.

General James Gavin, commander of the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division during World War II, says the western allies had planned to parachute troops into Berlin and capture it ahead of the Russians in the closing days of the war. He says his own division was to take part in the operation. “I don’t know why we allowed the Russians to take Berlin,” Gavin says in a statement carried by the Columbia Broadcasting system

Senator Barry Goldwater (R-Arizona) brushes aside suggestions that he advance his decision on whether to enter the G.O.P. Presidential race because of Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller’s announced candidacy. “I don’t intend to announce something I am not yet decided upon doing,” he says. Goldwater has said he will reveal his decision in January.

Chicago teamster local 705, one of the largest in the country, votes against granting James R. Hoffa, teamster president, the power of attorney he needs to negotiate the biggest labor contract in history. Hoffa is attempting to represent all drivers, dock workers, and other employees in the trucking industry in negotiations for a national trucking contract. Local members say they fear that they would lose their local autonomy in such a contract, which would cover 16,000 companies and 450,000 workers.

Former President Eisenhower said a deadlock at 1964 Republican national convention could thrust former Vice President Richard Nixon into the Presidential race.

A Jewish leader has demanded that Catholics purge their liturgy and textbooks because Jews are still being blamed for the Crucifixion of Christ.

A Negro attorney, Republican Paul Zuber, announced he will enter the New Hampshire Presidential primary as an independent.

Black Muslim activist Malcolm X delivered what would become a widely re-quoted speech, “Message to the Grass Roots” to the Northern Negro Leadership Conference at the King Solomon Baptist Church in Detroit. Almost all of his listeners were black Christians, and Malcolm X’s message was one of revolution rather than accommodation. “You don’t catch hell ’cause you’re a Methodist or Baptist… a Democrat or a Republican… a Mason or an Elk. And you sure don’t catch hell ’cause you’re an American; ’cause if you was an American, you wouldn’t catch no hell. You catch hell ’cause you’re a black man. You catch hell, all of us catch hell, for the same reason.” He was unsparing in his criticism of “The Big Six” (Martin Luther King Jr., Roy Wilkins, Whitney Young, Adam Clayton Powell Jr., A. Philip Randolph and James Farmer), Black leaders who he said had sold out to the white man, and added that the March on Washington was “nothing but a circus, with clowns and all… white and black clowns.”

A tornado roars out of the Gulf of Mexico into Punta Gorda, Florida, injuring two persons and wrecking their home and five other houses. Ten more houses are damaged by the twister, which then breaks up. A deputy sheriff says he found sheets and bedding from the home of the injured couple a half-mile away.

An American version of the British television news satire “That Was The Week That Was” was shown at 9:00 p.m. Eastern time as a special broadcast on NBC-TV, and would become a regular series two months later. For the pilot, the host was Henry Fonda. Supporting players would include Woody Allen, Steve Allen, Bill Cosby, and future MAS*H star Alan Alda.

GANEFO, the first GAmes of the New Emerging FOrces, commenced in opening ceremonies at Jakarta, Indonesia, after Indonesia had been ruled ineligible to participate in the 1964 Olympic Games. Despite warnings to member nations from the International Olympic Committee, FIFA, and other organizations against participation in the GANEFO events, 2,404 athletes from 63 nations participated. and the games were played until the closing ceremonies on November 22. The team from the People’s Republic of China (which had not participated in the Olympics since 1952) won 68 gold medals (and 171 overall). In second place was the Soviet Union, which heeded the IOC warning and did not send its top Olympic athletes to Jakarta.

Detroit right wing Gordie Howe surpasses Maurice Richard as leading NHL all-time goal scorer with 545th career goal in a 3-0 Red Wings victory over Montreal Canadiens in Detroit.

NFL Football:

The Pittsburgh Steelers, dominating three-quarters of the game, dropped the Cleveland Browns into a tie for first place in the National Football League’s Eastern Conference today by beating them, 9—7, before 54,497 customers. This was the first sellout crowd to attend a professional game at Pitt Stadium. The Steelers did it the hard way. They tackled Jimmy Brown in the end zone for a safety in the third quarter and their Ed Brown completed a desperation-type pass to Gary Ballman for a touchdown in the fourth. Lou Michaels of the Steelers missed five field-goal attempts, any of which could have made the Steelers breathe easier, and a first-period drive by the Steelers was stopped on Cleveland’s 1-yard line. Despite these missed opportunities, the Steelers were able to tighten the race and to keep their own slight chances alive, by pure physical superiority in a game played primarily on the ground.
The Browns, who have a 7-2 won-lost record, left the field fully aware the Giants had caught them by routing Philadelphia, a team that gave the Browns fits last week. The Steelers, with a 5-3-1 mark, remain in the running, and so do the St. Louis Cardinals, 6-3. Only in the second period did the Browns show any life. They marched 74 yards in 13 plays for their touchdown, as Brown accounted for 45 of the yards on five carries. Frank Ryan flipped to Gary Collins for the score from 4 yards out after a good fake to Brown. The Browns had the ball for only nine plays to Pittsburgh’s 22 in the first quarter. In the second half, the Browns never got beyond their own 32 under their own power. They intercepted a pass near midfield in the third quarter, but lost the ball on a fumble on the Steeler 18.

The San Francisco 49ers rallied behind Lamar McHan in the second half today to defeat the Dallas Cowboys, 31—24, and chalk up their second National Football League victory of the season. With Don Meredith passing for 282 yards and three touchdowns during the first half, the Cowboys built a 21—10 lead at intermission. However, the 49ers came back and with McHan passing for two touchdowns, one to halfback Don Lisbon, and another to flanker Bernie Casey, and setting up a third, went on to victory.

The Baltimore Colts scored the first four times they had the ball today and then held on to defeat the Detroit Lions, 24—21, in a National Football League game. Johnny Unitas led the Colt attack with two touchdown passes and gained a total of 376 yards on 17 completions in 24 attempts. Earl Morrall also threw two scoring passes for the Lions and gained 296 yards on forwards, completing 22 of 34 aerials. Baltimore, which scored all its points in the first half, scored what proved the winning touchdown on a 4-yard run by Lenny Moore in the second quarter. A few minutes later, Moore was kicked in the head and had to retire from the game. He complained of dizziness. The Lions got a touchdown just before the end of the first half when Tom Watkins plunged over from the 1 to make the score 24—14. Detroit closed to within 3 points in the third quarter on Morrall’s 10-yard pass to Terry Barr. The touchdown had been set up on a pass interception by Bruce Maher.

Roger Leclerc booted field goals in the first and third quarters and the Chicago Bears defense was unbeatable today as the Bears scored a 6—0 victory over the Los Angeles Rams. The victory kept the Bears tied with Green Bay for the National Football League’s Western Conference lead. Both have 8-1 won-lost records. The Packers, whose only loss was to the Bears, meet Chicago in Wrigley Field next Sunday. The Bears’ offense sputtered, but the defense hounded Roman Gabriel so viciously that the Rams’ passer seldom was on balance. The Rams never passed the Bear 36-yard line and in the first half they gained only 36 yards. They gained only 88 yards in all, 29 in the air. The Bears drove 65 yards to the Ram 9 in the opening five minutes, but a series of penalties set them back and Leclerc booted a 30-yard field goal. With 3 minutes 20 seconds remaining in the third period, Bill Wade’s 15-yard pass to Mike Ditka and Willie Galimore’s 44-yard sprint with a flat pass set up another field goal, which Leclerc kicked from the 16. In the last minute of the game, the Bears drove to the 5, but Leclerc’s field-goal attempt from the 12 was blocked by Jack Pardee.

With Bart Starr sidelined with a broken hand, John Roach rallied a sluggish Green Bay offense and passed for three touchdowns today as the Packers defeated the Minnesota Vikings, 28—7, in a bruising National Football League duel. Minnesota scored on an 18-yard pass from Fran Tarkenton to Paul Flatley in the first quarter and checked the Packers until Hank Gremminger picked off a pass and returned to the Viking 39 in the second quarter. On the ninth play, Roach passed to tight end Marv Fleming, substituting for the injured Ron Kramer, for a 12-yard scoring play. With their ground attack shackled by the fired-up Minnesota defense, the Packers took to the air at the outset of the second half and moved 83 yards in six plays to go in front to stay. Roach passed to Boyd Dowler for 49 yards in the big gainer and then hit his lanky flanker back for 20 yards to cap the drive. Roach passed to Tom Moore on a 45-yard maneuver for another touchdown in the final quarter before retiring. Zeke Bratkowski, obtained on waivers from Los Angeles two weeks ago, made his Green Bay debut at quarterback.

The New York Giants charged into a first-place tie in the Eastern Conference of the National Football League by rolling over the battered Philadelphia Eagles, 42—14. Y.A. Tittle, the old Bald Eagle of the Giants, threw three touchdown passes and completed 16 of 20 for 261 yards. The victory put the Giants in a tie with the Cleveland Browns, who lost to Pittsburgh, 9—7. Both the Giants and Browns have 7-2 records. Phil King scored twice for the Giants, on a 38-yard pass play from Tittle and a three-yard romp around end. Tittle hit Joe Morrison on a seven-yard touchdown pass and Frank Gifford on a 14-yard toss. Alex Webster drove home from the two after a 40-yard pass from Y.A. to Aaron Thomas. Don Chandler added the five extra points. The Eagles were in the ball game only briefly. A 64-yard bomb from King Hill to the fleet Tommy McDonald tied the score at 7—7 in the first period. After that, the Giants simply battered the Eagles’ offensive line and hounded Hill and his successor, former Giant Ralph Guglielmi, who made his first appearance for Philadelphia.

Charlie Johnson set a St. Louis club record with three touchdown passes that gave the Cardinals a 24—20 victory over the Washington Redskins today in a National Football League game. Two late touchdowns by Washington on short runs by Billy Barnes narrowed the margin of victory. Johnson connected on scoring strikes to Bob Paremore for 30 yards, Bobby Joe Conrad for 20 and Sonny Randle for 14. He has passed for 18 touchdowns this season, breaking the previous team mark of 17 set by Paul Christman in 1947 and tied by Jim Hardy in 1950 and John Roach in 1960. The victory kept St. Louis in third place in the Eastern Conference with a 6-3 won-lost mark. Washington is 2-7. Johnson’s 21-yard pass to Randle also set up a second quarter field goal that gave St. Louis a 10—6 half-time lead. Johnson completed 17 of 29 passes for 195 yards. St. Louis scored the only touchdown of the opening half the first time it had the ball. Johnson led the 84-yard drive with runs of 13 and 11 yards, a pass to Randle for 19 yards and the touchdown pass to Paremore. Norm Snead of the Redskins completed 10 of 14 passes for 123 yards in the first half. What proved to be the winning score came after Bobby Mitchell let a punt by Jerry Stovall of the Cards roll through his legs. The Cards recovered on the Redskin 14. One play later Johnson passed to Randle for a touchdown.

Cleveland Browns 7, Pittsburgh Steelers 9
Dallas Cowboys 24, San Francisco 49ers 31
Detroit Lions 21, Baltimore Colts 24
Los Angeles Rams 0, Chicago Bears 6
Minnesota Vikings 7, Green Bay Packers 28
Philadelphia Eagles 14, New York Giants 42
Washington Redskins 20, St. Louis Cardinals 24

AFL Football:

The San Diego Chargers cracked Boston’s American Football League-leading defenses for a first-quarter touchdown today and limited the Patriots to a pair of field goals in a 7—6 victory. Tobin Rote passed 27 yards to Lance Alworth for that early touchdown before 28,402 and made George Blair’s conversion stand up for the seventh Charger victory in nine games. Gino Cappelletti, of Boston, the league’s leading scorer, kicked field goals of 35 and 25 yards. But he missed on tries of 38, 37 and 55 yards. Blair missed the toughest field goal chances of the day. His 12-yard off-angle try missed by a foot and a 48-yarder hit an upright.

Despite a 47-yard scoring toss from Dick Wood to Bake Turner and a 93-yard touchdown punt return by Bill Baird, the New York Jets were unable to protect a 21—17 lead today and lost to the Houston Oilers, 31—27. A crowd of 23,619 sat in 78-degree weather at Jeppesen Stadium and saw the Oilers take over undisputed possession of first place in the Eastern Division of the American Football League with a 6-4 won-lost record. The Wood-to-Turner long bomb gave New York a brief 7—0 lead at 2:41 of the opening quarter, and it looked as if Wood had regained his early-season form. But the lanky Wood then lost his passing touch, particularly in the second and final periods. The Jet quarterback had five aerials intercepted and the Oilers promptly converted two of them into touchdowns. Wood did complete 20 of 40 passes for 312 yards and three touchdowns, Dee Mackey catching the other two. But the versatile George Blanda kept pace for the Oilers, hitting on 19 of 32 tosses for 205 yards. Blanda’s only scoring pass was a 7-yard pitch to Charlie Hennigan in the final period for the deciding score.

San Diego Chargers 7, Boston Patriots 6
New York Jets 27, Houston Oilers 31

Born:

Mike Powell, American track and field athlete whose 1991 leap of 29 feet 4.25 inches (8.9472 m) remains the world’s record for the long jump, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Powell broke the 23-year-old record of Bob Beamon; as of 2018, he has held the record for 27 years for the furthest leap forward by a human being.

Mike McCarthy, NFL head coach (Super Bowl, 2010, Green Bay Packers 2006-2018; Dallas Cowboys), in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Andrés Thomas, Dominican MLB shortstop (Atlanta Braves), in Boca Chica, Dominican Republic.

Dave Croston, NFL tackle (Green Bay Packers), in Sioux City, Iowa.

Laron Brown, NFL wide receiver (Denver Broncos), in Dayton, Ohio.

Hugh Bonneville, English actor (Downton Abbey, Paddington Bear), in London, England, United Kingdom.