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This past Tues Oct 22 was beginning of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
It's the day when Pres John F Kennedy went on TV to address the USA
about the missiiles in Cuba.
>Here is a brief summary from the Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia.
>Following that is a link to George Washington University's The National Security Archive.
>Finally an excert to JFK's Speech on working towards peace half a year before he was assasinated plus a klink to the full speech.
I'll put my comments below ina separate post
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/cuba_mis_cri/annals.htm
http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Ready-Reference/JFK-Speeches/Commencement-Address-at-American-University-June-10-1963.aspx
Pres John F Kennedy at The American University -Commencement Speech
It's the day when Pres John F Kennedy went on TV to address the USA
about the missiiles in Cuba.
>Here is a brief summary from the Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia.
>Following that is a link to George Washington University's The National Security Archive.
>Finally an excert to JFK's Speech on working towards peace half a year before he was assasinated plus a klink to the full speech.
I'll put my comments below ina separate post
Encyclopedia > History > United States, Canada, and Greenland > U.S. History
Cuban Missile Crisis
Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962, major cold war confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union. After the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the USSR increased its support of Fidel Castro's Cuban regime, and in the summer of 1962, Nikita Khrushchev secretly decided to install ballistic missiles in Cuba. When U.S. reconnaissance flights revealed the clandestine construction of missile launching sites, President Kennedy publicly denounced (Oct. 22, 1962) the Soviet actions. He imposed a naval blockade on Cuba and declared that any missile launched from Cuba would warrant a full-scale retaliatory attack by the United States against the Soviet Union. On Oct. 24, Russian ships carrying missiles to Cuba turned back, and when Khrushchev agreed (Oct. 28) to withdraw the missiles and dismantle the missile sites, the crisis ended as suddenly as it had begun. The United States ended its blockade on Nov. 20, and by the end of the year the missiles and bombers were removed from Cuba. The United States, in return, pledged not to invade Cuba, and subsequently secretly removed ballistic missiles it had placed in Turkey.
See R. F. Kennedy, Thirteen Days (1969, repr. 1971); A. Chayes, The Cuban Missile Crisis (1974); R. Garthoff, Reflections on the Cuban Missile Crisis (1989); A. Fursenko and T. Naftali, "One Hell of a Gamble" (1997); E. R. May and P. D. Zelikow, ed., The Kennedy Tapes (1997); M. Franke
The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright © 2011, Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/cuba_mis_cri/annals.htm
http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Ready-Reference/JFK-Speeches/Commencement-Address-at-American-University-June-10-1963.aspx
Pres John F Kennedy at The American University -Commencement Speech
So, let us not be blind to our differences--but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved. And if we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. For, in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.