October 22nd has seen its fair share of significant events throughout history.Starting with a major global event, we go back ...
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. What did ...
Both the process and outcomes of public decision-making are key to the successful operation of government. Asking the right ...
In this October 18, 1962 recording, he dictates an account of the debates among his top advisors in the midst of the Cuban Missile Crisis. This tape was made two days after the president was ...
Nikita Khrushchev, leader of the Soviet Union, offered to remove the missiles if the U.S. agreed to not invade Cuba. Intro to the video Intelligence and the Cuban Missile Crisis.
On Oct. 16, 1962, the Cuban Missile Crisis began as President John F. Kennedy was informed that reconnaissance photographs had revealed the presence of nuclear missile bases in Cuba. In 1758, American ...
Sixty-two years ago today the country was caught up in the Cuban Missile Crisis when we almost had a nuclear conflict with the Soviet Union.We spoke with the la ...
The deployment of Soviet medium-range missiles only 90 miles from Key West in 1962 brought the world as close as ever to a ...
Here are 11 of the best films about how some real U.S. presidents rose to prominence, and, in some cases, how they fell from ...
This Government... has maintained the closest surveillance of the Soviet Military buildup on the island of Cuba,” John F.
KAAY was born out of KTHS, the state's first 50,000-watt AM broadcast station. KTHS officially came on the air in 1924 and ...
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 ...