Fifty Years Ago Today, November 26, 1965

Viet Nam Called JFK's 'Failure'

President John F. Kennedy undoubtedly realized toward the end of his brief term in office that Viet Nam was "his great failure in foreign policy," writes historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. in "A Thousand Days," his account of those White House days.

Christmas Parade

The largest of all Columbus-Phenix City Christmas Parades will escort Santa Claus into town Monday afternoon in the company of beauty queens, bands and colorful floats. Starting in Phenix City at 5:30 p.m. the parade will be sponsored for the first time by all merchants in Muscogee County and Phenix City and will proceed across the 14th Street Bridge and down Broadway in Columbus to Ninth Street.

No Free Mail

Columbus Post Office officials today cleared up an apparent misunderstanding that led many people to believe they could mail letters free to servicemen in Viet Nam. They can't. Not through any United States Post Office, anyway, according to R.L. Wall, Columbus Postmaster.

This story was originally published November 25, 2015 at 12:07 PM with the headline "Fifty Years Ago Today, November 26, 1965 ."