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The thirteen days marking the most dangerous period of the Cuban missile crisis began. President Kennedy and principal foreign policy and national defense officials are briefed on the U-2 findings.

The negotiation would come to be known as the Cuban Missile Crisis and would be one of Kennedy's most lasting legacies. Narrator: The Soviets seemed intent on testing the quarantine line that ...

U.S. President John F. Kennedy announced that American reconnaissance planes discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, marking the beginning of the Cuban Missile Crisis on this day in 1962.

Kennedy confer at the White House two weeks before the Cuban missile crisis. Army Col. David Parker uses enlarged aerial photos of Soviet missile sites in Cuba to point out bases as Soviet ...

The Cuban Missile Crisis started October 16th ... again a little more than a year later after President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. He said at first, America thought Russia was behind ...

The result of the Cuban Missile Crisis was the realization that a nuclear holocaust was entirely possible. Thankfully, both ...

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Kennedy was under pressure to stand up to the communist Soviet Union. This would influence some of the decisions he took in dealing with the Cuban Missile Crisis. Narrator: In 1959, Fidel Castro ...

The negotiation would come to be known as the Cuban Missile Crisis and would be one of Kennedy's most lasting legacies. Narrator: The Soviets seemed intent on testing the quarantine line that ...

Throughout that crisis, Pye Chamberlayne, Jr. was at the White House. He knows the story of the tense Cuban days well. Pye Chamberlayne: "On the night of October 22nd, President Kennedy made what ...