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Kennedy and Khrushchev Face Crisis in Cuba 1962
A summary of how President Kennedy handled the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962. It covers Kennedy seeking world support through the OAS and UN, issuing a 7 pm television address, and the naval quarantine of Cuba. It notes Khrushchev’s letters, U.S. responses, the Stevenson testimony at the UN, and the eventual move toward removing missiles under UN supervision.
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Louis Salome
Miami News
Cox News Service
John Kennedy
Cuba
U.S
Kennedy
Organization of American States
NATO
United Nations
OAS
U.N
Nikita Khrushchev
Fidel Castro
Khrushchev
United States
Soviet Union
Washington
Robert Kennedy
Anatoly Dobrynin
Dobrynin
USS
Adlai Stevenson
Zorin
Stevenson
Ambassador Zorin
U.ss.r
Lebanon
Florida
Turkey
Security Council
State Department
Maj
Rudolf Anderson Jr
South Carolina
Anderson
Dean Rusk
Robert
Keane
Kenney
Raber
Ken Seay
Bobby Kennedy
John F. Kennedy
Caribbean