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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.

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 ...

For nearly 20 years we have been exposing Washington lies and untangling media deceit, but now Facebook is drowning us in an ...

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 ...

During the darkness of the night on 25 October 1962 at Duluth Air Force Base, Minnesota, a sentry spotted something. The base ...

For the thirty-second time in so many years, the US blockade of Cuba was globally condemned at the UN General Assembly’s ...

Kennedy revealed the presence of Soviet ... equipment being shipped to the Communist island nation. The Cuban missile crisis of October 1962 was a direct and dangerous confrontation between ...

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.

In a fraught moment 62 years ago, President John F. Kennedy consulted with a body of senior officials during the Cuban missile crisis. Cooler heads prevailed and Kennedy averted nuclear war. As ...

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