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April 1963 - Lt. Col Traul leaves and Lt. Col Kenneth R. Welton assumes command of CAMP ATTERBURY |
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Aug 30, 1963 - The hot line, a rapid communications link between Washington, D.C., and Moscow went into operation to avoid miscalculations during an emergency. |
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Oct 29, 1963 - Forty years ago, Army Capt. Humbert Roque 'Rocky' Versace wanted to become a priest and work with Vietnamese orphans. He'd been accepted into a seminary, but his dream was not to be fulfilled. Two weeks before he was due to return home, Versace, 27, was captured on Oct. 29, 1963, by Viet Cong guerrillas who spent the next two years torturing and trying to brainwash him. In return, he mounted four escape attempts, ridiculed his interrogators, swore at them in three languages and confounded them as best he could, according to two U.S. soldiers captured with him. The witnesses said the unbroken Versace sang "God Bless America" at the top of his lungs the night before he was executed on Sept. 26, 1965. His remains have never been recovered. Nominations starting in 1969 to award Versace the Medal of Honor failed; he received the Silver Star posthumously instead. Language added by Congress in the 2002 Defense Authorization Act ended the standoff and authorized the award of the nation's highest military decoration for combat valor. Today, President Bush and the nation recognized Versace for his courage and defiance. Bush said the Army captain was "a soldier's soldier, a West Point graduate, a Green Beret who lived and breathed the code of duty, and honor and country. Oct 31, 1963 - Propane tank ignited during Holiday on Ice show at Indianapolis Coliseum Fairgrounds. Oct. 31, 1963, will forever be ingrained in the memory of the people of Indianapolis. That night an explosion ripped through the Indiana State Fairgrounds Coliseum, claiming the lives of 74 people and injuring nearly 400. It was one of the worst tragedies in Indiana history. |
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Nov 22, 1963 - President John Fitzgerald Kennedy assassinated in Dallas, Texas at 12:30 pm. Nov 23, 1963 - Lee Harvey Oswald is shot by Jack Ruby in the basement of the Dallas city jail. |
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