Oct 22, 2014 · October 22, 1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis - John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum. President Kennedy phones former Presidents Hoover, Truman and Eisenhower to brief them on the situation. Meetings to coordinate all actions continue. Kennedy formally establishes the Executive Committee of the National Security Council and instructs it to meet daily during …

Vocabulary. On October 22, 1962, United States President John F. Kennedy announce d a “ quarantine ” of Cuba, in retaliation of the discovery of Soviet nuclear weapon facilities on the island a week earlier. This brought the conflict, known as the Cuban Missile Crisis, to a diplomatic height. Kennedy and his adviser s (including, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and …

President John F. Kennedy tells the American people that the U.S. is setting up a naval blockade against Cuba, during a television and radio address, Oct. 22, …

May 29, 2022 · On Monday, October 22, 1962, President Kennedy appeared on television to inform Americans of the recently discovered Soviet military buildup in Cuba including the ongoing installation of offensive nuclear missiles. He informed the people of the United States of the "quarantine" placed around Cuba by the U.S. Navy.

On October 22nd 1962, President John F. Kennedy appeared on American network television to announce a naval quarantine of Cuba, in response to the presence of Soviet missiles there: This Government, as promised, has maintained the closest surveillance of the Soviet military buildup on the island of Cuba. Within the past week, unmistakable evidence has established the fact …

October 22, 1962 President John F. Kennedy made public the presence of Soviet missiles in Cuba in this speech to the American people. John F. Kennedy's Speech on Radio and Television October 22, 1962 Good Evening, My Fellow Citizens: This government, as promised, has maintained the closest surveillance of the Soviet military buildup ...

Letter From President Kennedy to Chairman Khrushchev, October 22, 1962. Washington, October 22, 1962. A copy of the statement I am making tonight concerning developments in Cuba and the reaction of my Government thereto has been handed to your Ambassador in Washington. In view of the gravity of the developments to which I refer, I want you to know immediately and …

Nov 16, 2009 · On October 20, 1962, the White House press corps is told that President John F. Kennedy has a cold; in reality, he is holding secret meetings with advisors on the eve of ordering a blockade of Cuba.

October 22, 1962 (Monday) At 7:00 pm Washington time, U.S. President John F. Kennedy announced in a nationally broadcast address that "unmistakable evidence has established the fact that a series of offensive missile sites" had been established in Cuba by the Soviet Union "to provide a nuclear strike capability against the Western Hemisphere".