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Cuban Missile Crisis

History Out Loud offers several audio recordings of ExComm meetings, along with commentary and transcript excerpts. Jerry Coffee, flew sorties with the first VFP-62 low-level reconnaissance missions on Oct.

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Stalemate The next morning, October 26, Kennedy informed the EXCOMM that he believed only an invasion would remove the missiles from Cuba. The confrontation is often considered the came to escalating into a full-scale. This identification was made, in part, on the strength of reporting provided by , a in the working for and. Retrieved January 25, 2011.

The Cuban Missile Crisis - The Joint Chiefs of Staff believed that the missiles would seriously alter the military balance, but McNamara disagreed. Fortunately, the crisis was resolved on Oct.

On October 15, 1962, a group of CIA analysts assigned to review aerial photographs of Cuba identified several newly established Soviet medium-range ballistic missile installations -- bases within 100 miles of the United States. The State Department was notified that night, and President John F. Kennedy was briefed the next morning, setting in motion a crisis that brought the world frighteningly close to nuclear war. For 13 tense days, the crisis deepened and people around the world feared the very real possibility of a new, horrific worldwide conflict. On October 27, the U. Over the following weeks, U. Gathered here are a few glimpses from those tense Cold War days, as the world approached, then retreated from, the brink of destruction. Evidence presented by the U. Department of Defense, of Soviet missiles in Cuba. This low level photo, made October 23, 1962, of the medium range ballistic missile site under construction at Cuba's San Cristobal area. A line of oxidizer trailers is at center. Added since October 14, the site was earlier photographed, are fuel trailers, a missile shelter tent, and equipment. The missile erector now lies under canvas cover. Evident also are extensive vehicle tracks and the construction of cable lines to control areas. A map of Cuba annotated by former U. Kennedy, displayed for the first time at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston, Massachusetts, on July 13, 2005. Kennedy tells the American people that the U. The president also said the U. From left, Soviet foreign deputy minister Valerian A. Zorin; Cuba's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Mario Garcia-Inchaustegui; and U. A Soviet submarine near the Cuban coast controlling the operations of withdrawal of the Russian Missiles from Cuba in accordance with the US-Soviet agreement, on November 10, 1962. American planes and helicopters flew at a low level to keep close check on the dismantling and loading operations, while US warships watched over Soviet freighters carrying missiles back to Soviet Union.