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 ...

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 ...

BOSTON (AP) — A map of Cuba that President John F. Kennedy referred to during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 has sold at auction for nearly $140,000.

President John F. Kennedy speaks before a joint session of Congress on May 25, 1961, to urge congressional approval of additional funds to bolster space, foreign aid and defense programs. (AP ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...