1961 NY NEWSPAPER - NAZI ADOLPH EICHMANN'S TRIAL / YURI GAGARIN HAILED IN USSR

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Item up for sale is the original and complete (20 page,) April 15th, 1961, edition of the New York Daily News newspaper; the lead story of the day was the trial of former Nazi big, Adolph Eichmann, who was instrumental in the diabolical Nazi German institution known as the Holocaust. The Israeli Mossad (the Jewish Intelligence agency) would abduct the former Nazi off of the streets of Buenos Aires and whisk him away to Jerusalem where he would stand trial, especially for crimes concerning the Holocaust. The former SS Colonel would unsuccessfully seek to have the case thrown out on a technicality, despite overwhelming evidence of his complicity in the mass murder of Jews during WW II.
(2) The second major story in this newspaper has to do with the first ever space flight by man; and that man was Russia's own Yuri Gagarin, who completed one orbit of Earth on April 12th, 1961, while piloting Vostok 1. The 27 year old would gain immediate worldwide notoriety for his feat. He would arrive in Moscow to a heroes welcome and would be given a 20 gun salute. Russian Premier Nakita Khrushchev would be exuberant and would pull no punches in informing the President of the United States, John F. Kennedy of Russia's triumph; and so began the space race in earnest. Gagarin  would be declared a "Hero of the Soviet Union," by Nikita  Khrushchev. This item is described fully above.