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WE DID NOT LIKE THE SOVIET UNION PUTTING MISSILE SIGHTS IN CUBA ! PUTIN IS RIGHT KEEP AMERICA AND NATO OUT OF UKRAINE.
The Cuban Missile Crisis was the signature moment of John F. Kennedy's presidency. The most dramatic moments of that crisis—the famed “thirteen days—lasted from October 16, 1962, when President Kennedy first learned that the Soviet Union was constructing missile launch sites in Cuba, to October 28, when Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev publicly announced he was removing the missiles from the island.
Tensions continued, however, until November 20, when Kennedy lifted the blockade he had placed around Cuba after confirming that all offensive weapons systems had been dismantled, and that Soviet nuclear-capable bombers were to be removed from the island.
The potential for a nuclear war was real, and the following Miller Center exhibits from our Kennedy collection capture the president's thoughts and the advice he was receiving.
President Kennedy (right) meets with General Curtis LeMay during the Cuban Missile Crisis
While discussing various options for dealing with the threat posed by Soviet missiles in Cuba, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Curtis E. LeMay, after criticizing calls to blockade the island, sums up the president's political and military troubles.
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