The World On the Brink: John F. Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis
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Description: Site for the 40th anniversary exhibit at the John F. Kennedy Library has a chronology and extensive links to documents and audio files.
Cuban Missile Crisis - John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum Bullseye chart showing the flight range of Soviet-owned missiles based in Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis. , National Security Advisor McGeorge Bundy alerted President Kennedy that a major international crisis was at hand. Two days earlier a United States military surveillance aircraft had taken hundreds of aerial photographs of Cuba. CIA analysts, working around the clock, had deciphered in the pictures conclusive evidence that a Soviet missile base was under construction near San Cristobal, Cuba; just 90 miles from the coast of Florida. The most dangerous encounter in the Cold War rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union had begun.
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| Page title: | Cuban Missile Crisis - John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum |
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| Description: | The John F. Kennedy library and museum Cuban Missile Crisis page. Access the Kennedy Library Digital Archives, which includes 300,000 scanned documents, films, and audio clips with materials such as early drafts of the John F. Kennedy inaugural address, Fidel Castro, Bay of Pigs, Missiles, Russia, Sviet Union, John f. kennedy inaugural address, inaugural address of john f. kennedy, jfk inaugural address, john f kennedy inaugural address, jfk inaugural address. |
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