Navy veteran Jack Davitt was on a ship as part of the blockade during the Cuban Missile Crisis. This week's Stories of Service features a Navy veteran who served in the Korean War and the Cuban ...

Cuban Missile Crisis ... -- Two U. S. Navy destroyers halted a Lebanese ship sailing ... the Defense Department announced today as the United States resumed its naval blockade and ...

Cuban Missile Crisis. Events of 1962; ... All ships of any kind bound for Cuba, ... "The Soviet Press this morning was filled with vituperative attack on the Americans-Cuban blockade.

What happened during the Cuban Missile Crisis — the 13-day standoff that ... Soviet ships are shown ... 1962 informing the American people of his decision to set up a naval blockade against ...

In 1962, the world was on edge, worried that the Cuban missile crisis––a standoff between the U.S. and the former Soviet Union––could end in nuclear war. Take a look back at the infamous ...

In the wake of the Cuban missile crisis the Soviet Union removed the planes from Cuba. This photo was published in The Miami Herald December 7, 1962. 10/25/1962: Navy destroyers at dockside in Key ...

US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy signs the order of a naval blockade of Cuba, on October 23, 1962 in White House, Washington DC, during the Cuban missile crisis.

State of Global Affairs Prior to the Cuban Missile Crisis. ... 1962, discussing a passenger ship that approached the blockade line. Marc Selverstone discussed the implications. ...

Flashback to the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962. The “naval training’ mission is a clear message and reminder to the U.S. of Moscow’s foothold in or own hemisphere — thanks to Cuba.

Over 13 days beginning on Oct. 16, 1962, the U.S. and Soviet Union were at the brink of a nuclear conflict. But since the Cold War ended, some historical assumptions about the crisis have changed.

Eastern Daylight Time, the American blockade of Cuba becomes effective. 25 Russian ships are en route to Cuba on what may be ...