Deseret News archives: ‘High urgency’: Kennedy alerts Americans to Cuban missile crisis
The Cuban missile crisis of October 1962 was a direct and dangerous confrontation between the U.S. and the Soviet Union ...
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This Day in History on October 22: The Cuban Missile Crisis
October 22nd has seen its fair share of significant events throughout history.Starting with a major global event, we go back ...
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This Happened — October 22: Kennedy's Cuban Missile Crisis Address
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 ...
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JFK White House Tapes, Cuban Missile Crisis
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 ...
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Eastern Europe and Cuba: The Missile Crisis, the Soviet Empire Retreats Back
The deployment of Soviet medium-range missiles only 90 miles from Key West in 1962 brought the world as close as ever to a ...
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Former missile facilities technician remembers Cuban Missile Crisis 62 years later
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 ...
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October 16, Cuban Missile Crisis begins
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 ...
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On This Day: Cuban Missile Crisis
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.
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U.S. Elections Approach: America is Better Than This Spectacle
Candidates sound off on hot button issue but have no ideas . (courtesy of palmbeachpost . com) Simply stated, this November ...
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Telling History: Cuban Missile Crisis
This Government... has maintained the closest surveillance of the Soviet Military buildup on the island of Cuba,” John F.
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Opinion: What lessons on leadership can we still learn from the Cuban Missile Crisis?
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 ...