Texas AP wire copy tear sheet from KNER-FM about Kennedy's presidency

Object number2009.015.0001.0039

Date11/22/1963

ClassificationsDocuments

Creator Associated Press (AP)

ObjectWire copy

Credit LineWayne Harrison Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

MediumPaper

Dimensions8 1/2 x 7 in. (21.6 x 17.8 cm)

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Cold War, Communism and Cuban Missile Crisis

DescriptionTexas AP wire copy tear sheet from KNER-FM in Richardson, Texas. The wire copy describes problems President Kennedy had to deal with during his presidency including a nationwide railroad strike, a tax cut, the U.S.'s race to space, the nuclear crisis, and the Cuban missile crisis. Text of wire copy is as follows: AP128 He faced also a nationwide railroad strike which resulted in congressional action. Kennedy also fought for a tax cut which he called necessary to spur the economy and to avoid a possible recession. At the same time he kept careful tabs on the United States race into space with the Russians. The nuclear crisis broke in the waning months of the second year of Kennedy’s first term in office. He faced up to Soviet Premier Khrushchev with a blunt demand for the removal of Russian nuclear missiles set up in Cuba and pointing at the United States, a scant 90-miles away. The President immediately ordered a naval quarantine on such offensive weapons being sent to Cuba. Kennedy declared that ships which carried such missiles would be turned back and he called on Khrushchev to withdraw the weapons already on the island. The United States and the world waited tensely for five days for word from Khrushchev. It came on Sunday, October 28th, 1962. And it was an answer that relieved the entire world. Khrushchev announced that he had ordered work stopped on missile bases in Cuba. He said the missiles would be crated and returned to Russia, and the Soviet Premier promised that the United Nations would verify the dismantling. (More) RB258PES 22

Curatorial Commentary

KNER-FM was a student-run radio station based in Richardson, Texas. It was established in 1955 and played primarily soft rock tunes with Southern Baptist-oriented religious programs. It was owned by Buckner Baptist Benevolences (which developed out of Buckner Orphans Home and is now an arm of Buckner Children and Family Services Dallas). It originally broadcast Sunday through Friday and was based out of the Chapel building on Buckner Blvd. in an old choir rehearsal room. Sometime after 1968 the station and frequency were sold to North Texas State University to start up KNTU. - Stephanie Allen-Givens, Collections and Exhibits Manager