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Universal Newsreel about the Cuban Missile Crisis. The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis (Spanish: Crisis de Octubre) in Cuba, or the Caribbean Crisis (Russian: Карибский кризис, romanized: Karibskiy krizis), was a 13-day confrontation between the governments of the United States and the Soviet Union, when American deployments of nuclear missiles in Italy ...
EXCOMM meeting in the White House Cabinet Room during the Cuban Missile Crisis on October 29, 1962. The Executive Committee of the National Security Council (commonly referred to as simply the Executive Committee or ExComm) was a body of United States government officials that convened to advise President John F. Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962.
On October 22nd in 1962, John F Kennedy announced a blockade of Cuba in response to Soviet missiles in the region. This initiated that beginning of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Other events on ...
After the near escape from disaster in the Cuban Missile Crisis, he promoted disarmament and disengagement programs with Moscow, and created the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. In October, 1963, he signed into law the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which was accepted by Moscow and London.
The entire world watched with bated breath to see if this moment was the tipping point for World War III.
June 10 – President Kennedy delivers the commencement address at American University in Washington, D.C. This was the beginning of a series of speeches JFK made to promote peace with the Soviet Union. In the Peace Speech, JFK broke with tradition in two ways.
October 2024 marks the 62nd anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Those 13 days were the closest the world has come to nuclear war. Wartime decision-making is always difficult and fraught with ...
February 20: John Glenn, aboard the Friendship 7 space capsule, becomes the first American to orbit the Earth. February 12 – As Commander-in-chief, Kennedy commutes the military death sentence of seaman Jimmie Henderson to life imprisonment, marking the last time in the 20th century that an American president was faced with such a decision (As of 28 July 2008, the most recent such decision ...