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 ...

The negotiation would come to be known as the Cuban Missile Crisis and would be one of ... Premier Khrushchev just sent a message to President Kennedy today... The Soviet government has ordered ...

Today, 50 years after the Cuban Missile ... October 22, President John F. Kennedy announced to a stunned world that he knew of the nuclear threat in Cuba. In a radio and TV address to the American ...

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.