On 22 Nov 1963, President Kennedy was shot to death while riding in a motorcade in Dallas. Texas Gov. John Connally, in the same limousine as Kennedy, was seriously wounded. Suspect Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested. When I was a plebe at West Point I...
On 24 June 1948, the Soviet Union blocked all ground traffic to and from West Berlin. The Western allies were angered, especially the US. President Truman took two days to consider alternatives—which most feared could include war. On 26 June we...