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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 ...
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 ...
This was a moment of great fear for the people listening, as this was the closest the United States has come to nuclear war. This is a very important address in the history of the United States, and due to the encyclopedic value, it would makes a good featured sound. It appears in John F. Kennedy and Cuban Missile Crisis. Nominate and support.
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.
The entire world watched with bated breath to see if this moment was the tipping point for World War III.
October 22 – In a televised address, Kennedy announces the October 14 discovery of Soviet missiles in Cuba, making public the Cuban Missile Crisis. Kennedy also announces a naval "quarantine on all offensive military equipment" to that country.
This so-called Cuban missile crisis occurred during the second year of Kennedy’s tenure. Information released years later depicted it as a situation that nearly brought the world to the brink of ...
Cuban Missile Crisis: In a televised address, U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces the presence of Soviet missiles in Cuba and the U.S. naval blockade of the island. John Vassall, a former clerical officer in British naval intelligence, is sentenced to 18 years imprisonment after admitting to passing secret material to the Soviet Union. [18]