The Cuban Missile Crisis was a confrontation between the United States of America, the Soviet Union, and Cuba during the Cold War. The Russians call it the “Caribbean Crisis,” while the Cubans call it the “October Crisis.” The crisis ranks with the Berlin Blockade as one of the major confrontations of the Cold War, and is often regarded as the moment in which the Cold War came closest to escalating into a nuclear war.
The climax period of the crisis began on October 14, 1962, when U.S. reconnaissance photographs taken by an American U-2 spy plane revealed missile bases being built in Cuba, and ended two weeks later on October 28, 1962, when U.S. President John F. Kennedy and the intercession of U.N. Secretary-General, U Thant, reached an agreement that Cuba was no threat toward the United States.
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Thanks for reposting this. My father who,as you know,just passed away on Feb 23 and he was in the naval blockade of Cuba. I remember him many times recounting this and many other tales. Funny thing,he was aboard the USS Randolph and they were heading for a stop(suppoesedly)in Norfolk and Dad said that he went out to the deck in the wee hours of the morning and he noticed that it was suddenly getting warmer and warmer and he argued with shipmates that they were going south but they didnt believe him until they were told that they were,in fact,heading to Cuba as part of a Naval blockade. He had many cool stories and I really appreciate this little newsreel. A very scary time,my father told me over and over throughout the years “know one can ever know just how close we came to WWIII during that time”..whew. Well,keep up the good work..I will be seeing ya.
I never showed most of these newsreels before, and I never dubbed them together before so that you could watch them as sort of a “show”. This post contains several Castro newsreels and JFK talking about the Naval Blockade of Cuba in the 1960′s.
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