[View of the White House from Lafayette Square, at the time of a Cabinet meeting after President John F. Kennedy returned ...

In this October 18, 1962 recording, he dictates an account of the debates among his top advisors in the midst of the Cuban Missile Crisis. This tape was made two days after the president was ...

ABILENE, Texas — Sixty-two years ago today the country was caught up in the Cuban Missile Crisis when we almost had a nuclear conflict with the Soviet Union. We spoke with the last living crew ...

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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.

That evening marked the peak of what’s known as the “13-day Cuban Missile Crisis” that threatened ... About 100 million viewers watched President JFK’s live announcement of the discovery ...

President Kennedy set up a special three-man committee today to handle negotiations looking toward an end to the Cuban crisis ... s promise to dismantle the missile bases.

The Cuban missile crisis of October 1962 was a direct and ... s nationally televised address is so widely remembered. “JFK prepares U.S. for high urgency,’ read the top headline of the Deseret ...

Unknown Speaker: At the height of tension over the Cuban Crisis, with the world purged on the edge of Armageddon, Secretary of State Dean Rusk said, "The United States and the Soviet Union are ...

Shortly after it had come on the air, KAAY was also utilized by the U.S. government to broadcast propaganda to Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis. In 1966, KAAY also successfully brought a new ...

Stern, historian at the Kennedy Library ... full ExComm by JFK, ultimately served to conceal the real agreement that secretly—and peacefully—resolved the Cuban missile crisis.[ ...