The negotiation would come to be known as the Cuban Missile Crisis and would be one of ... They fired against our low-altitude surveillance. John F. Kennedy (archival audio): A U-2 was shot ...

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 ...

an event that became known as the Cuban Missile Crisis. The weapons could have destroyed the United States and so President John F Kennedy blockaded the country. Welshman Sir David Ormsby-Gore ...

Here's a look at key events leading up to the Cuban missile crisis and what unfolded ... and U.S. President John F. Kennedy.

W. Norton & Company. May, Ernest R. and Philip Zelikow (eds) (2002) The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House during the Cuban Missile Crisis. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. Morgenstern, Oskar, and ...

"For the first time since the Cuban Missile Crisis, we have a direct threat ... York city within range - testing new US President John F Kennedy Mr Kennedy considered a full-scale assault on ...

American President John F. Kennedy was under pressure to stand up to the communist Soviet Union. This would influence some of the decisions he took in dealing with the Cuban Missile Crisis.

The negotiation would come to be known as the Cuban Missile Crisis and would be one of ... They fired against our low-altitude surveillance. John F. Kennedy (archival audio): A U-2 was shot ...