Current leaders would be wise to follow Kennedy’s exemplary rhetorical model when facing and talking publicly about today’s ...

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 ...

The Soviet missiles in Cuba were a threat to the security of the United States and the Western Hemisphere. As such they endangered the peace of the world. The action undertaken against this threat ...

Kennedy lifts the quarantine after the Soviets agree to remove their bombers. Statement Announcing the End of the Cuban Naval Quarantine November 20, 1962 ...

That is, Bateson felt that Kennedy's quarantine of Cuba had provoked the Soviets in just the way one octopus could provoke another.

President John F. Kennedy is seen in this October 23, 1962 file photo after signing a proclamation formally putting into effect the U.S. arms quarantine against Cuba.

Kennedy wrote to Khrushchev, informing him of the quarantine and demanding that all missile bases in Cuba be dismantled, according to the U.S. Department of State.

On This Day: JFK alerted to the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 On October 16, 1962, President John F. Kennedy learned that Russia had secretly placed nuclear missiles in Cuba, just 90 miles from the ...

Kennedy lifts the quarantine after the Soviets agree to remove their bombers. Statement Announcing the End of the Cuban Naval Quarantine November 20, 1962 [The first three sentences of a statement ...

President John F. Kennedy is seen in this October 23, 1962 file photo after signing a proclamation formally putting into effect the U.S. arms quarantine against Cuba.