Former Secret Service agent Clint Hill recounts the courage of Jackie Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 ... his time in the White House, notes his torment in not being able to ...

In the missile crisis, this included the magic mixture of public, private, and super-secret ingredients. In JFK’s view, this was the single most important lesson of the Cuban Missile Crisis for ...

The following is how the crisis is unfolded, in part by the JFK Presidential Library ... in the pictures conclusive evidence that a Soviet missile base was under construction near San Cristobal ...

Kennedy signs a proclamation for the interdiction of the delivery of offensive weapons to Cuba during the Cuban missile crisis ... account with handwritten notes of a 1964 interview by a Warren ...

Another reference was the book JFK’s Forgotten Crisis ... the world witnessed other critical events: the Cuban Missile Crisis unfolded in October 1962, bringing the US and the Soviet Union ...

Did Oswald really act alone in assassinating JFK during that Cold War climate of fear, shortly after the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 nearly led to a U.S.-Soviet nuclear war? On Friday ...

In October it will be 60 years since the Cuban missile crisis, which has been called the most dangerous crisis in recorded history. The Soviet Union had secretly placed missiles in a base in Cuba ...

Sixty years after the Cuban missile crisis, it’s striking to contrast ... When Dobrynin several days later delivered a written summary of the deal, the attorney general flung it back.

Stephen Kinzer is right in arguing that only back-channel negotiations prevented the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis from escalating into all-out nuclear war (“The most important lesson of the Cuban ...