Henkels & McCoy Timeline: 1962
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1962 |
 In 1962 alone, Henkels & McCoy's clients
include Sun Oil, Texaco, Shell Chemical, Pennsylvania Railroad,
Owens-Corning, US Steel, RCA, Reynolds Metals, General Electric, Purex
Company, and Boeing, among many others...
Henkels & McCoy completes the construction of a microwave tower in Chile,
and other crews are busy repairing an electrical distribution system at
Lajes Field in the Azores and expanding the capabilities of the Puerto Rico
Telephone Company...
Also this year, Henkels & McCoy will open a telephone equipment rebuilding
shop in Elkhart to aid in the modernization of most phone systems. As a
result of this successful operation, Henkels & McCoy begins telephone
equipment installation, starting with projects for Graybar, in Los Angeles,
California... Jack Henkels, founder of Henkels & McCoy, becomes Chairman of the Board. Andrew Lewis succeeds him as President, and Paul M. Henkels
is
Executive Vice President. Photo: (Above
left)
H&M Electronics technician in the process of signal tracing to final test
and calibration of SP-600 Receiver at our new Elkhart, Indiana telephone
rebuilding shop.January 12
Helicopters flown by American pilots carry 1,000 South Vietnamese
soldiers to sweep an NLF stronghold not far from Saigon. It's America's first
combat missions against the Vietcong.
 February 20
Lt. Col. John H. Glenn, Jr., a Marine pilot, becomes the first US astronaut
to orbit the Earth, in the space capsule Friendship 7. After a successful
flight of three scheduled orbits, Glenn splashes down 800 miles southeast of
Bermuda. Aboard the USS Randolph, the flagship onto which Glenn is taken for
a post mission physical exam, a young sailor named George W. Davis, (future
Henkels & McCoy Director of Facilities) shown right, has an opportunity to
shake John Glenn's hand in congratulations for a job well done. Years later, after Henkels & McCoy is contracted to help
physically move Glenn's boyhood home, Davis receives Glenn's autograph, and
his thanks for the help received in 1962.
June
President Kennedy federalizes Alabama's National Guard and orders Gov.
George C. Wallace to allow two black students to be enrolled at the
University of Alabama.
July 10
NASA launches Telstar 1. It is the first privately built satellite for
communications and will relay the first live television pictures between the
US and Europe.
July 13
First telephone conversation is relayed by satellite between the US and
Europe.
August 5
Marilyn Monroe dies of an overdose of sleeping pills at age 36, in
Brentwood, California.
 October 11
Pope John XXIII opens Second Vatican Council.
October 16-28
Cuban Missile Crisis: US reconnaissance flights photograph secret Soviet
missile launching sites under construction in Cuba. If completed, the
missiles' range will include Washington, DC and other major eastern US
cities. President Kennedy orders a naval blockade of Cuba and demands that
the missile sites be dismantled. The world is inches away from an all out
nuclear war. Eventually, the Soviet Union withdraws. Kennedy quietly orders
similar US missiles removed from Turkey as a reciprocal gesture to Soviet
Premier Nikita Kruschev. Right: US Ambassador to the UN Adlai
Stevenson, center, displays photographic blowups in the General Assembly
proving the existence of Russian missile launching pads under construction.
What neither he nor Kennedy knew was that the Soviets had in fact completed
many launch sites within Cuba that were already armed, aimed at America...
and fully operational.
October 16
In a seven-game series, the New York Yankees win the World Series over San
Francisco at Candlestick Park.
November
Pat Brown defeats Richard Nixon in the California gubernatorial race. Nixon
announces his permanent withdrawal from politics. December 2
Adolph Eichmann
was sentenced to death for crimes against the Jewish people and crimes
against humanity. Eichmann meets the hangman on May 31, 1962 in Ramleh prison,
where he will be executed.
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ALSO IN 1962:
Johnny Carson takes over hosting duties of The Tonight Show
in New York City following the departure of Jack Paar.Unimation
introduces the first industrial robot.
T1 carrier is put into commercial service, providing high-speed
telecommunication opportunities.
Jack Nicklaus wins the US Open in golf at age 22.
Sie liebt dich, Ja Ja Ja. The Beatles
make their first recordings (in Germany).
Hula hoop craze develops.
The first K-Mart and Wal-Mart open.
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
with Zero Mostel premieres in New York.
Polaroid introduces color film prints, which develop
in 60 seconds.
Texas salesman H. Ross Perot forms a
computer company called Electronic Data Systems (E.D.S.)
 Best Picture
Oscar goes to
Lawrence of Arabia.
Gregory Peck wins Best Actor in To Kill a
Mockingbird. Also in theatres are
The Manchurian Candidate and Divorce
Italian Style.
New books this year include: James Baldwin, Another Country, Rachel
Carson, Silent Spring, Gunter Grass, The Tin Drum, and Ken
Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
PLUS:
Beginning of the Internet. The Advanced Research Projects Agency
(ARPANET) is formed with an emphasis on research and the military using
computers connectivity.
What's On TV
90% of Americans own a television set... ABC begins broadcasting in color...
The Beverly Hillbillies premiers and is an instant smash on CBS.
Jed Clampett, the "poor mountaineer who barely kept his family fed"
accidentally strikes oil, becomes filthy rich and moves with his his
family to Beverly Hills. Despite the efforts of the mostly greedy and
unscrupulous sophisticates who surround him; Jed, Granny, Ellie Mae and
nephew Jethro Bodine unwittingly triumph over the slickers just by being
themselves... also in the charts this year are The Dick Van Dyke Show,
The Defenders and What's My Line, all on CBS.
Sports
World Series: the Yankees narrowly defeat the San Francisco
Giants in seven games...in the NBA Championship, it's the Boston Celtics
over LA Lakers 4 games to 3... In the Stanley Cup, Toronto beats Chicago
(4-2)... The NCAA Basketball Championship is won decisively by Cincinnati
over Ohio State, 71-59... The NCAA Football Champs are USC with an 11-0-0
record...Brazil beats Czechoslovakia 3 to 1 in the World Cup final.
Deaths
William Faulkner, author
Ernie Kovacs, comic genius
Eleanor Roosevelt, former first lady, columnist, philanthropist, political
sage
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