October 23, 2012

jfklibrary:

October 23, 1962 — Day 8 of the Cuban Missile Crisis

President Kennedy signs Proclamation 3504, authorizing the naval quarantine of Cuba. The four-page proclamation included this forceful statement in the second paragraph:

“The United States is determined to prevent by whatever means may be necessary, including the use of arms, the Marxist-Leninist regime in Cuba from extending, by force or the threat of force, its aggressive or subversive activities to any part of this hemisphere, and to prevent in Cuba the creation or use of an externally supported military capability endangering the security of the United States;”

Read the full text of Proclamation 3504 here.

(source: jfklibrary.org) 



Tagged: History / John F. Kennedy / Cuban Missile Crisis / Cuba / Cold War / Soviet Union / Nikita Khrushchev / Day 8 / 13 Days /

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October 20, 2012

jfklibrary:

October 20, 1962 — Day 5 of the Cuban Missile Crisis

President Kennedy, in Chicago campaigning for congressional candidates, decides to return to the White House as the crisis reaches a new urgency. To avoid public suspicion the president consults his physician and together they fabricate the diagnosis of a cold, allowing JFK to return to Washington without arousing panic. A quick glance at Presidential Secretary Evelyn Lincoln’s day planner proves Kennedy was quite busy during his supposed sick days.

(source: jfklibrary.org)



Tagged: History / Cuban Missile Crisis / Cuba / John F. Kennedy / Cold War / Politics /

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October 18, 2012

jfklibrary: October 18, 1962 — Day Three of the Cuban Missile Crisis President Kennedy meets with Soviet Ambassador Andrei Gromyko in the Oval Office. The memorandum of the meeting notes the Ambassador’s desire to be open with the United States: “Mr. Gromyko said he knew that the President appreciated frankness. Mr. Khrushchev’s conversation with the President at Vienna had been frank and therefore, with the President’s permission, he himself wished to be frank, too.” Despite this promise of openness, Gromyko did not speak about the Soviet missiles in Cuba, unaware that President Kennedy already knew of their existence, but had also chosen not to discuss them. (source: jfklibrary.org)

jfklibrary:

October 18, 1962 — Day Three of the Cuban Missile Crisis

President Kennedy meets with Soviet Ambassador Andrei Gromyko in the Oval Office. The memorandum of the meeting notes the Ambassador’s desire to be open with the United States:

“Mr. Gromyko said he knew that the President appreciated frankness. Mr. Khrushchev’s conversation with the President at Vienna had been frank and therefore, with the President’s permission, he himself wished to be frank, too.”

Despite this promise of openness, Gromyko did not speak about the Soviet missiles in Cuba, unaware that President Kennedy already knew of their existence, but had also chosen not to discuss them.

(source: jfklibrary.org)



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October 16, 2012

jfklibrary: October 16, 1962 - Day One of the Cuban Missile Crisis President Kennedy’s schedule for October 16, 1962. Note that several of JFK’s meetings are off the record, so as not to arouse concern about the impending crisis.  (source: jfklibrary.org)

jfklibrary:

October 16, 1962 - Day One of the Cuban Missile Crisis

President Kennedy’s schedule for October 16, 1962. Note that several of JFK’s meetings are off the record, so as not to arouse concern about the impending crisis. 

(source: jfklibrary.org)



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jfklibrary: What if the Cuban Missile Crisis had gone wrong? Today at 8:00am ET– exactly 50 years after Soviet missiles were discovered in Cuba – we launched Clouds Over Cuba, an interactive website allowing audiences around the world to experience an immersive documentary that depicts the full story of the Cuban Missile Crisis in riveting detail. Narrated by actor Matthew Modine, Clouds Over Cuba lets you import recordings of the secret ExComm meetings, letters between JFK and Khrushchev, and other material into your iCal and Google calendars with one click, enabling you to “attend” the meetings and receive the communications live over the 13 days. Clouds Over Cuba also features a frightening short film that takes place in an alternate 2012 in which the Cuban Missile Crisis escalated into nuclear war 50 years earlier.

jfklibrary:

What if the Cuban Missile Crisis had gone wrong?

Today at 8:00am ET– exactly 50 years after Soviet missiles were discovered in Cuba – we launched Clouds Over Cuba, an interactive website allowing audiences around the world to experience an immersive documentary that depicts the full story of the Cuban Missile Crisis in riveting detail.

Narrated by actor Matthew Modine, Clouds Over Cuba lets you import recordings of the secret ExComm meetings, letters between JFK and Khrushchev, and other material into your iCal and Google calendars with one click, enabling you to “attend” the meetings and receive the communications live over the 13 days.

Clouds Over Cuba also features a frightening short film that takes place in an alternate 2012 in which the Cuban Missile Crisis escalated into nuclear war 50 years earlier.



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June 26, 2012

ourpresidents:

On June 26, 1963, President John F. Kennedy delivered a speech that electrified a crowd gathered in the shadow of the Berlin Wall. As he paid tribute to the spirit of Berliners and to their quest for freedom, the crowd roared with approval upon hearing the the President’s dramatic pronouncement, “Ich bin ein Berliner” (I am a Berliner).

President Kennedy used this handwritten note card while delivering his speech.  On it, he phonetically spelled German phrases from his speech, including “Ish bin ein Bearleener.” Read More

-from the JFK Library



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June 4, 2012

todaysdocument: Photograph of President John F. Kennedy and Chairman Nikita Khrushchev during their meeting in Vienna, Austria. Khrushchev and Kennedy Shaking Hands, 06/03/1961 - 06/04/1961

todaysdocument:

Photograph of President John F. Kennedy and Chairman Nikita Khrushchev during their meeting in Vienna, Austria.

Khrushchev and Kennedy Shaking Hands, 06/03/1961 - 06/04/1961

(via truth-has-a-liberal-bias)



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