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Description: Audio recording of President John F. Kennedy’s radio and television address to the nation regarding the former Soviet Union’s military presence in Cuba. In his speech President Kennedy reports the establishment of offensive missile sites presumably intended to launch a nuclear offensive against Western nations.
Nov 24, 2009 · In a televised speech of extraordinary gravity, President John F. Kennedy announces on October 22, 1962 that U.S. spy planes have discovered Soviet missile bases in Cuba. These missile...
Cuban Missile Crisis Address to the Nation. delivered 22 October 1962. Audio mp3 of Address. Your browser does not support the audio element. click for pdf. [AUTHENTICITY CERTIFIED: Text version below transcribed directly from audio (2).] Good evening, my fellow citizens:
On October 22, President Kennedy spoke to the nation about the crisis in a televised address. Click here to listen to the Address in the Digital Archives (JFKWHA-142-001) No one was sure how Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev would respond to the naval blockade and US demands.
The most dramatic parts of that crisis—the famed "13 days"—lasted from October 16, 1962, when President Kennedy first learned that the Soviet Union was constructing missile launch sites in Cuba, to October 28, when Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev publicly announced he was removing the missiles from the island nation.
President Kennedy's 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis Address. Archival footage of President John F. Kennedy’s Oval Office Address during the Cuban Missile Crisis. On October...
The John F. Kennedy library and museum Cuban Missile Crisis page. Access the Kennedy Library Digital Archives, which includes 300,000 scanned documents, films, and audio clips with materials such as early drafts of the John F. Kennedy inaugural address, Fidel Castro, Bay of Pigs, Missiles, Russia, Sviet Union, John f. kennedy inaugural address ...
