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Universal Newsreel about the Cuban Missile Crisis. The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis (Spanish: Crisis de Octubre) in Cuba, or the Caribbean Crisis (Russian: Карибский кризис, romanized: Karibskiy krizis), was a 13-day confrontation between the governments of the United States and the Soviet Union, when American deployments of nuclear missiles in Italy ...
The name was derived from then Cuban President Fidel Castro by spelling his surname backwards.. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, upon discovery of SS-4 missiles being assembled in Cuba, the U.S. Government considered several options including a blockade (an act of war under international law, so it was called a "quarantine"), an airstrike, or a military strike against the Cuban missile positions.
The Cuban government allows some foreign news agencies and outlets to work in Cuba, but has largely prohibited U.S.-government funded media from operating on the island, forcing many journalists ...
U.S. Representative and daughter of Cuban exiles María Elvira Salazar (R-FL27) stated in an interview with The Hill, "I hope this crisis and the protests in Santiago de Cuba expose the failures of communism and lead to an end of the dictatorship." [7] U.S. Senator Rick Scott issued a statement urging his country to stand with the "brave Cuban ...
The entire world watched with bated breath to see if this moment was the tipping point for World War III.
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a tense confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States over the Soviet deployment of nuclear missiles in Cuba. On October 22, 1962, Admiral Rivero was the commander of the American fleet sent by President John F. Kennedy to set up a quarantine (blockade) of the Soviet ships in an effort to stop the ...
Hysteria over ‘War of the Worlds’ radio broadcast, Truman survives assassination attempt, Cuban missile crisis, Phillies win World Series
He provided contemporaneous accounts of major events and political figures such as the Hindenburg disaster, Alger Hiss, Barry Goldwater, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the Watergate scandal. He wrote one of the first exposés of J. Edgar Hoover and the Federal Bureau of Investigation in The FBI Nobody Knows (1964).