That ‘parallel flight’ which was the first of the Kennedy airlifts landed in September, 1960:
http://www.jfklibrary.org/JFK/JFK-in-History/JFK-and-the-Student-Airlift.aspx?p=2
“...By mid-September, “Airlift Africa, 1960” brought 295 students to New York City on four separate flights. (Many people referred to it as “The Kennedy Airlift.”) Among those meeting with the students during their orientation week were Eunice Shriver of the Kennedy Foundation, playwright Lorraine Hansberry, and Malcolm X. The students enrolled in colleges and high schools in forty-one states and several Canadian provinces...”