President John F. Kennedy Oval Office Address: Cuban Missile Crisis Part 1. In this portion of archival video of President John F. Kennedy's Oval Office Address on October 22, 1962, he described ...

Nothing caught global attention and heightened tensions as did the Cuban Missile Crisis. The new young President John F. Kennedy faced off with the Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro and the ...

The world stood at the brink of Armageddon for 13 days in October 1962 when President John F. Kennedy drew a symbolic line in ... On the eve of the 50th anniversary of the Cuban missile crisis, ...

The Cuban Missile Crisis (The Cold War) by Peter Chrisp (Hodder Wayland, 2001) An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963 by Robert Dallek (Little, Brown, to be published in 2003) Kennedy by ...

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 ...

A map of Cuba President John F. Kennedy used during the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962 was auctioned off for $138,798. The Boston-based RR Auction sold Kennedy's map of Cuba, which he ...

In 1962, the world was on edge, worried that the Cuban missile crisis––a standoff between the U.S. and the former Soviet Union––could end in nuclear war. Take a look back at the infamous ...

Jackie Kennedy was prepared to die during the tense days of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, according to revelations in a new book by the former first lady's Secret Service bodyguard.

Regarding Peggy Noonan’s “Enduring Lessons of the Cuban Missile Crisis” (Declarations, Oct. 1): When Dwight Eisenhower asked President John F. Kennedy on April 22, 1961, why he had cancelled ...

The Cuban Missile Crisis (The Cold War) by Peter Chrisp (Hodder Wayland, 2001) An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963 by Robert Dallek (Little, Brown, to be published in 2003) Kennedy by ...