Chris Oakley
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OK, as you may have guessed by the first half of the title, this thread was partly inspired by the Timeline In A Day threads that have become increasingly popular around here. My other inspiration was the fact that in October we'll be marking the fifty-year anniversary of the ouster of Nikita Khrushchev as Soviet premier. Nasty as that turn of events was, it could easily have been worse...and you're about to get a glimpse how much worse.
And on that cheery note, I present:
Red Alert In Red Square: The Russian Revolution of 1964-65
By Chris Oakley
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
October 16th, 1964
TURMOIL IN MOSCOW
Martial Law Declared For Soviet Capital As Khrushchev Accuses Rival
Of Power Grab; White House Declines Comment
THE HUNTLEY-BRINKLEY REPORT
"Tonight an anxious world watches and waits to see what will happen next in
Moscow as an apparent split in the ranks of the Soviet political elite has thrust
the U.S.S.R. into a crisis the type and severity of which it hasn't seen since the
end of the Bolshevik Revolution forty-seven years ago. Current Soviet premier
Nikita Khrushchev is reported by sources at the U.S. embassy in Moscow to be
fighting an apparent coup attempt by his one of his chief rivals within the CPSU
leadership, Leonid Brezhnev..."
NBC'S THE TODAY SHOW
October 17th, 1964
"Martial law remains in effect in Moscow this morning as people on both sides
of the Iron Curtain attempt to come to grips with the tense standoff happening
inside the walls of the Kremlin. CPSU general secretary Nikita Khrushchev and
his arch-rival Leonid Brezhnev are both claiming to be the rightful leader of the
Soviet Union, and there are fears the ideological schism between them may be
just the beginning of a larger political rupture within Russia...."
BBC WORLD SERVICE NEWS BULLETIN
"NATO's Supreme Council has called an emergency session for six o'clock this
evening to discuss what if any action should be taken in response to what has
been called 'the gravest crisis Europe has confronted for half a century'...."
THE CBS EVENING NEWS WITH WALTER CRONKITE
"President Johnson will speak to the nation tonight in a special televised
address set to begin at 7:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time. A spokesman for
the White House has told CBS News the primary topic of the President's
speech will be the political crisis currently unfolding within the Soviet Union
as Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev struggle for control of the Soviet
government..."
WASHINGTON POST
October 18th, 1964
LBJ APPEALS FOR CALM AS MOSCOW CRISIS CONTINUES
NATO Forces In West Germany On Precautionary Alert
BBC'S THE MAIN NEWS
"The Ministry of Defence has confirmed that several Army of the Rhine units
have been put on standby alert in response to the rising tensions in Moscow
between the Khrushchev and Brezhnev factions of the Soviet government....
In Washington D.C., President Lyndon Johnson and Secretary of State Dean
Rusk are in conference with the U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union to hear
his report on the latest developments in the Kremlin..."
RADIO MOSCOW
"Listeners in metropolitan Moscow and surrounding districts are reminded
that martial law is still in force and will remain so until further notice due to
recent events..."
NEW YORK TIMES
October 19th, 1964
RIOT BREAKS OUT IN RED SQUARE; HUNDREDS ARRESTED
SOVIET DEFENSE MINISTRY DENIES RUMORS OF MUTINY
AMONG RED ARMY TROOPS IN MOSCOW
CBS NEWS SPECIAL REPORT
"Soviet deputy premier Mikhail Suslov has been shot in what appears to
have been an assassination attempt..."
THE HUNTLEY-BRINKLEY REPORT
"The crisis in Moscow is taking a turn for the worse as we go on the air
tonight...The official Soviet news agency TASS has just confirmed the death
of Soviet deputy premier Mikhail Suslov as a result of the gunshot wounds
sustained in an attack on his office earlier today, and sources in the Soviet
are telling the Associated Press at least eighteen members of the Red Army
security detail at the Kremlin have been arrested by the KGB on suspicion of
being involved with Suslov’s assassination...”
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
October 20th, 1964
KHRUSHCHEV MISSING; SOVIET EMBASSY IN U.S. MUM
REGARDING CIRCUMSTANCES OF PREMIER'S ABSENCE
VOICE OF AMERICA
"Three senior KGB officials have been arrested on suspicion of playing a role
in the disappearance of Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev..."
THE NEWS WITH PETER JENNINGS
"A sense of foreboding continues to hang over Europe tonight as diplomatic
and military officials on both sides of the Iron Curtain nervously try to get a
handle on the political instability in Moscow..."
BOSTON HERALD-AMERICAN
October 21st, 1964
FIVE MORE DEAD AS TURMOIL IN RUSSIA ESCALATES
TIMES OF LONDON
KREMLIN DECLINES COMMENT ON RUMORS OF KHRUSHCHEV'S
DEATH
THE CBS EVENING NEWS WITH WALTER CRONKITE
"According to a Reuters dispatch from Vienna staffers at the French embassy
in Moscow say they can hear gunshots coming from the streets outside their
offices..."
BBC HOME SERVICE NEWS BULLETIN
"The Foreign Secretary's office has issued a directive for all dependents and
nonessential personnel at the British Embassy in Moscow to
be evacuated in as swift and orderly a fashion as possible..."
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
October 22nd, 1964
BLOODBATH IN LENINGRAD
10 Dead, 25 Arrested In Citywide Riots
THE CBS EVENING NEWS WITH WALTER CRONKITE
"The Soviet defense ministry has confirmed that three additional Red Army
divisions are being deployed to Moscow at this hour to enforce martial law in
the Soviet capital as the U.S.S.R. teeters on the brink of civil war. Red Army
troops have also been dispatched to Leningrad, where riots earlier today left
ten people dead..."
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH
FLASH--TASS CONFIRMS NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV DEAD
THE HUNTLEY-BRINKLEY REPORT
October 23rd, 1964
"With yesterday’s confirmation of the death of Soviet premier Nikita
Khrushchev hopes for a peaceful resolution to the political turmoil in
Russia are, if not dead, certainly fading. In a press conference at the
Pentagon this afternoon Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara told
reporters the security situation in Europe is 'more perilous now than at
any other time in the last twenty-five years'...."
BBC HOME SERVICE NEWS BULLETIN
"The Foreign Secretary has announced that all remaining staff at the
British Embassy in Moscow are to be evacuated from
Russia at once..."
ABC NEWS SPECIAL REPORT
"Leonid Brezhnev, leader of the dissident Communist faction that tried to
seize control of the Soviet government in a coup against Nikita Khrushchev
last week, has ordered the recall of three Red Army infantry divisions from
East Germany in response to what appears to be an anti-government revolt
in Leningrad..."
CBS NEWS DOCUMENTARY: "THE 3RD RUSSIAN
REVOLUTION"
(hosted by Mike Wallace)
April 12th, 1965
"Nearly six months have passed since the domestic upheaval in Russia that
left Nikita Khrushchev dead and his chief political rival, Leonid Brezhnev, in
charge of a five-man committee that styles itself the legitimate government
of the Soviet Union and is fighting with a rival faction led by Alexei Kosygin
for control of the U.S.S.R. in one of the bloodiest civil wars any country has
yet seen...."
And on that cheery note, I present:
Red Alert In Red Square: The Russian Revolution of 1964-65
By Chris Oakley
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
October 16th, 1964
TURMOIL IN MOSCOW
Martial Law Declared For Soviet Capital As Khrushchev Accuses Rival
Of Power Grab; White House Declines Comment
THE HUNTLEY-BRINKLEY REPORT
"Tonight an anxious world watches and waits to see what will happen next in
Moscow as an apparent split in the ranks of the Soviet political elite has thrust
the U.S.S.R. into a crisis the type and severity of which it hasn't seen since the
end of the Bolshevik Revolution forty-seven years ago. Current Soviet premier
Nikita Khrushchev is reported by sources at the U.S. embassy in Moscow to be
fighting an apparent coup attempt by his one of his chief rivals within the CPSU
leadership, Leonid Brezhnev..."
NBC'S THE TODAY SHOW
October 17th, 1964
"Martial law remains in effect in Moscow this morning as people on both sides
of the Iron Curtain attempt to come to grips with the tense standoff happening
inside the walls of the Kremlin. CPSU general secretary Nikita Khrushchev and
his arch-rival Leonid Brezhnev are both claiming to be the rightful leader of the
Soviet Union, and there are fears the ideological schism between them may be
just the beginning of a larger political rupture within Russia...."
BBC WORLD SERVICE NEWS BULLETIN
"NATO's Supreme Council has called an emergency session for six o'clock this
evening to discuss what if any action should be taken in response to what has
been called 'the gravest crisis Europe has confronted for half a century'...."
THE CBS EVENING NEWS WITH WALTER CRONKITE
"President Johnson will speak to the nation tonight in a special televised
address set to begin at 7:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time. A spokesman for
the White House has told CBS News the primary topic of the President's
speech will be the political crisis currently unfolding within the Soviet Union
as Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev struggle for control of the Soviet
government..."
WASHINGTON POST
October 18th, 1964
LBJ APPEALS FOR CALM AS MOSCOW CRISIS CONTINUES
NATO Forces In West Germany On Precautionary Alert
BBC'S THE MAIN NEWS
"The Ministry of Defence has confirmed that several Army of the Rhine units
have been put on standby alert in response to the rising tensions in Moscow
between the Khrushchev and Brezhnev factions of the Soviet government....
In Washington D.C., President Lyndon Johnson and Secretary of State Dean
Rusk are in conference with the U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union to hear
his report on the latest developments in the Kremlin..."
RADIO MOSCOW
"Listeners in metropolitan Moscow and surrounding districts are reminded
that martial law is still in force and will remain so until further notice due to
recent events..."
NEW YORK TIMES
October 19th, 1964
RIOT BREAKS OUT IN RED SQUARE; HUNDREDS ARRESTED
SOVIET DEFENSE MINISTRY DENIES RUMORS OF MUTINY
AMONG RED ARMY TROOPS IN MOSCOW
CBS NEWS SPECIAL REPORT
"Soviet deputy premier Mikhail Suslov has been shot in what appears to
have been an assassination attempt..."
THE HUNTLEY-BRINKLEY REPORT
"The crisis in Moscow is taking a turn for the worse as we go on the air
tonight...The official Soviet news agency TASS has just confirmed the death
of Soviet deputy premier Mikhail Suslov as a result of the gunshot wounds
sustained in an attack on his office earlier today, and sources in the Soviet
are telling the Associated Press at least eighteen members of the Red Army
security detail at the Kremlin have been arrested by the KGB on suspicion of
being involved with Suslov’s assassination...”
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
October 20th, 1964
KHRUSHCHEV MISSING; SOVIET EMBASSY IN U.S. MUM
REGARDING CIRCUMSTANCES OF PREMIER'S ABSENCE
VOICE OF AMERICA
"Three senior KGB officials have been arrested on suspicion of playing a role
in the disappearance of Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev..."
THE NEWS WITH PETER JENNINGS
"A sense of foreboding continues to hang over Europe tonight as diplomatic
and military officials on both sides of the Iron Curtain nervously try to get a
handle on the political instability in Moscow..."
BOSTON HERALD-AMERICAN
October 21st, 1964
FIVE MORE DEAD AS TURMOIL IN RUSSIA ESCALATES
TIMES OF LONDON
KREMLIN DECLINES COMMENT ON RUMORS OF KHRUSHCHEV'S
DEATH
THE CBS EVENING NEWS WITH WALTER CRONKITE
"According to a Reuters dispatch from Vienna staffers at the French embassy
in Moscow say they can hear gunshots coming from the streets outside their
offices..."
BBC HOME SERVICE NEWS BULLETIN
"The Foreign Secretary's office has issued a directive for all dependents and
nonessential personnel at the British Embassy in Moscow to
be evacuated in as swift and orderly a fashion as possible..."
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
October 22nd, 1964
BLOODBATH IN LENINGRAD
10 Dead, 25 Arrested In Citywide Riots
THE CBS EVENING NEWS WITH WALTER CRONKITE
"The Soviet defense ministry has confirmed that three additional Red Army
divisions are being deployed to Moscow at this hour to enforce martial law in
the Soviet capital as the U.S.S.R. teeters on the brink of civil war. Red Army
troops have also been dispatched to Leningrad, where riots earlier today left
ten people dead..."
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH
FLASH--TASS CONFIRMS NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV DEAD
THE HUNTLEY-BRINKLEY REPORT
October 23rd, 1964
"With yesterday’s confirmation of the death of Soviet premier Nikita
Khrushchev hopes for a peaceful resolution to the political turmoil in
Russia are, if not dead, certainly fading. In a press conference at the
Pentagon this afternoon Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara told
reporters the security situation in Europe is 'more perilous now than at
any other time in the last twenty-five years'...."
BBC HOME SERVICE NEWS BULLETIN
"The Foreign Secretary has announced that all remaining staff at the
British Embassy in Moscow are to be evacuated from
Russia at once..."
ABC NEWS SPECIAL REPORT
"Leonid Brezhnev, leader of the dissident Communist faction that tried to
seize control of the Soviet government in a coup against Nikita Khrushchev
last week, has ordered the recall of three Red Army infantry divisions from
East Germany in response to what appears to be an anti-government revolt
in Leningrad..."
CBS NEWS DOCUMENTARY: "THE 3RD RUSSIAN
REVOLUTION"
(hosted by Mike Wallace)
April 12th, 1965
"Nearly six months have passed since the domestic upheaval in Russia that
left Nikita Khrushchev dead and his chief political rival, Leonid Brezhnev, in
charge of a five-man committee that styles itself the legitimate government
of the Soviet Union and is fighting with a rival faction led by Alexei Kosygin
for control of the U.S.S.R. in one of the bloodiest civil wars any country has
yet seen...."
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