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...before deadline. Two days before press time, TIME'S editors switched off a cover that had been painted and written, scheduled a new one that reports the week's biggest story-the unexpected release and return from Moscow of imprisoned RB-47 Flyers John McKone and Bruce Olmstead...
...white-knuckled hands clutching the sides of his lectern, to face the press and live national TV in his first presidential news conference. His performance-cool, controlled, knowledgeable-was hard to fault, as was his matter-of-fact handling of the return of imprisoned U.S. Airmen Freeman Bruce Olmstead and John McKone (see The Cold...
FOREIGN POLICY. Kennedy and State Secretary Dean Rusk had hoped to gain time for working out foreign-policy plans by a return to the quiet techniques of traditional diplomacy at the ambassadorial level. But the release of U.S. Airmen Bruce Olmstead and John McKone upset the Kennedy Administration's schedule, made an early Kennedy-Khrushchev summit meeting all but inevitable. Both Jack Kennedy and Dean Rusk remain wary of Soviet intentions, still believe that the best way to prepare for accord is by keeping open every possible line of communication with Moscow. So long as his policy does...
That story broke the next day when President Kennedy, at his first news conference, made a dramatic announcement: "Captains Freeman B. Olmstead and John R. McKone, members of the crew of the U.S.A.F. RB-47 aircraft who have been detained by Soviet authorities since July 1, 1960, have been released by the Soviet government and are now en route...
...that no publicity has been given to some of the State Department's efforts does not mean that no action has been taken. The State Department's guiding principle has been and is to do everything it considers most likely to result in the release of Captains Olmstead and McKone. The success of this effort depends on doing certain things quietly...