Kennedy's map of Cuba
President John F. Kennedy used this map during Cuban Missile Crisis meetings from September 1962 to October 1962 to show the location in Cuba of a potential missile...
Memorandum for the President
Attorney General Robert Kennedy's October 24 report to his brother, the President, on his meeting with Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin highlights the tensions...
Quarantine of Cuba
In October 1962, a U.S. spy plane photographed nuclear missile sites being built by the Soviet Union on the island of Cuba. President John F. Kennedy decided to place...
Summary of Executive Committee meeting
Theodore Sorensen summarized an October 18, 1962, meeting with President Kennedy and his national security advisors. His notes outline options for removing the...
U-2 view
This 1962 aerial photograph shows a missile launch site, located in Guanajay, Cuba. The photo alerted the Kennedy administration to the possibility of a Soviet...