Plans to move a borrowed Army Redstone missile down Main Street for a science fair exhibit were thwarted by Houston police on this day in 1961.
The 86-foot, short-range ballistic missile was brought here by the Montrose Chamber of Commerce. It made it as far as Collingsworth and the Eastex Freeway before being stopped by HPD.the Berlin Crisis
was in full swing as Communist took action to keep Army vehicles from entering East Berlin. It was part of a yearslong effort by the Communists to remove Western forces from West Berlin, eventually resulting in the construction of the Berlin Wall.
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