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Khruschev letter to President Kennedy Khruschev Letter to President Kennedy Dear Mr. President, .... Imagine, Mr. President, what if we were to present to you such an ultimatum as you have presented to us by your actions. How would you react to it? I think you would be outraged at such a move on our part. And this we

Return to National Security Archive Homepage   The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 A National Security Archive Documents Reader Edited by Laurence Chang and Peter Kornbluh Read the Introduction Ordering information for this book is available at the W.W. Norton & Co. website. Or by phone: 800-233-4830 (U.S.) 717-34

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The History Place - Great Speeches Collection: JFK on the Cuban Missile Crisis At 7 p.m. on Monday, October 22nd, 1962, President Kennedy appeared on television to inform the American people of the recently discovered installation of Russian nuclear missiles in Cuba. The President had first learned of the missiles on

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The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis (), the Caribbean Crisis (, tr. Karibskij krizis), or the Missile Scare, was a (October confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba . Along with being televised worldwide, it was the closes