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.

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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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

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