Cuban soldiers stand by an anti-aircraft artillery at the Havana waterfront in response to warning of an invasion from the United States.
Neptune U.S. Patrol plane flies over a Soviet freighter during the Cuban missile crisis in this 1962 photograph. Former Russian and U.S. Officials...
Prime Minister Fidel CASTRO giving a radio and televised speech during which he speaks about the measures taken by the United States regarding Cuba....
Washington, D.C.: President Kennedy met with and commended two Air Force pilots who have been flying reconna issuance missions over Cuba and the...
Nikita KHRUSHCHEV, USSR Soviet Union Communist Party's General Secretary, in Havana, speaking through an interpreter to the Cuban revolutionary...
Banner headlines of Britain's daily newspapers Oct. 23 announcing President Kennedy's blockade of Cuba. U.S. Planes and ships, armed with orders to...
This newspaper map from the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis shows the distances from Cuba of various cities on the North American Continent.
President John F. Kennedy speaks during a televised speech to the nation about the strategic blockade of Cuba, and his warning to the Soviet Union...
Protesters stage a sit-in during a demonstration against the Cuban missile crisis October 24, 1962 in London, United Kingdom. Former Russian and U.S....
President Kennedy tonight signs a proclamation formally putting into effect at 10 A.M. EDT tomorrow the U.S. Arms Quarantine against Cuba. The...
Administration official shows aerial views of one of the Cuban medium-range missile bases, taken in October 1962, to the members of the United...
American tanks on alert in the Berlin Grunewald, West Germany, as the crisis over the Cuban blockade looms during the Cuban missile crisis.
Group of Cuban refugees in Manhattan watch President Kennedy delivering a speech on television. Kennedy described a seven-point program directed at...
Reporters take pictures of President Kennedy behind his desk, after signing the arms embargo against Cuba. The embargo effectively quarantined Cuba.
Spy photo of a medium range ballistic missile base in San Cristobal, Cuba, with labels detailing various parts of the base, is shown October 1962....
Members of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament march during a protest against the U.S.'s action over the Cuban missile crisis October 28, 1962 in...
1960s CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS OCTOBER 1962 PRESIDENT JOHN F KENNEDY WITH GENERAL CURTIS LEMAY & AIDES DISCUSSE SURVEILLANCE OF CUBA
Onlookers gather on George Smathers Beach in Key West, Florida to see the Army's Hawk anti-aircraft missiles positioned there during Cuban Missile...
John Fitzgerald Kennedy , American president announcing on television the strategic blockade of Cuba, and his warning to the Soviet Union about...
Army missiles on George Smathers Beach here on October 28th, stand ready for any necessary action. With Soviet Premier Khrushchev's message saying he...
The debris of an American U-2 airplane shot down by the Cubans during the 1962 missile crisis is scattered over the ground. The airplane, piloted by...
The Soviet freighter Anosov, rear, being escorted by a Navy plane and the destroyer USS Barry, while it leaves Cuba probably loaded with missiles...
Delegates raise their hands in a vote of 19-1 approving the United State' decision to take steps against Cuba, during a meeting of the Organization...
Aerial spy photos of a medium range ballistic missile base with labels detailing various parts of the base during the Cuban Missile Crisis, San...
The Executive Committee of the National Security Council meets in the cabinet room during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Pickets at U.S. Consulate on University Ave.; Group of marchers protested announcement U.S. Action on Cuba.
President John F. Kennedy speaks during a televised speech to the nation about the strategic blockade of Cuba and his warning to the Soviet Union...
Members of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament stage a sit-in, protesting the Cuban missile crisis, as a line of policemen tries to prevent them...
Miami, FL- Federico Fidel Fernandez, a Miami Cuban refugee, listens to President Kennedy's television address October 22nd, in which the President...
Placard carrying Muscovites yell and shout as they demonstrate near the U.S. Embassy in protest against the U.S. Blockade of Cuba. Some 400 Soviet...
Members marching in Oxford Street, London, protesting against the United States' action over the Cuban missile crisis.
President John Fitzgerald Kennedy signs the order of a naval blockade of Cuba, on October 23, 1962 in White House, Washington DC, during the Cuban...
Former missile launch site in Cuba after it was dismantled by Soviet troops during the Cuban missile crisis.
Photograph of a ballistic missile base in Cuba was used as evidence with which U.S. President John F. Kennedy ordered a naval blockade of Cuba during...
Militiaman from the Cuban Army holding out his gun from which hangs the island's flag during the general mobilization of the island following the...
Off Puerto Rico: U. S. S. Barry Alongside Ansov. The U. S. S. Barry steams alongside the Soviet freighter Ansov, outbound from Cuba, for an...
Group of women from Women Strike for Peace holding placards relating to the Cuban missile crisis and to peace, New York, New York, 1962. They were...
Group of Women from Women Strike for Peace Holding Signs relating to Cuban Missile Crisis and Peace, New York City, New York, USA, 1962.
President John Fitzgerald Kennedy is shown in this 1960 photograph. His presidential career spanned the Bay of Pigs invasion, the Cuban Missile...
High performance X1G-21 aircraft and sites being prepared for Soviet missiles deployed by Khrushchev at an airfield in Cuba during the Cuban Missile...
John Hughes, Special Assistant to the Director of Defense Intelligence, conducts a military briefing for the news media showing the absence of Soviet...
Cuban Missile Crisis U.S. Naval squadron photographed off the coast of Cuba at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis - October 1962
United Nations ambassador Adlai Stevenson and Soviet ambassador Valerian Zorin turn to look at display of aerial photos brought into the Security...
Khrushchev was premier of the USSR between 1958 and 1964, and first secretary of the Communist party . John Fitzgerald Kennedy was the 35th president...
Militiamen, fighters for the Castro regime during the Cuban Missile Crisis, train in hiding in the Escambray Mountains of Cuba in 1962.
Army anti-aircraft missiles are lifted from a caterpillar-wheeled vehicle to launcher on George Smathers Beach here. Six launchers were armed with...
Ballistic missile base in Cuba, the evidence with which President Kennedy ordered a naval blockade of Cuba in the Cuban Missile Crisis.
The Soviet ship Kasimov, takes 15 I1-28 aircrafts from Cuba after the U.S. Asked for their withdrawal. Former Russian and U.S. Officials attending a...
President Kennedy proclaims in a televised speech on October 22 that Cuba has become an offensive Soviet base, capable of destruction. Kennedy...
Front page of the Daily News for October 23 Headline: We Blockade Cuba Arms, Red Ships Face Search or Sinking, photo of President Kennedy tells the...
Washington DC, USA, September President of the United States of America John F, Kennedy deep in thought at the White House during emergency talks...
An aerial intelligence photograph taken of missile transporters, oxidizer trailers, and fuel trailers at the Mariel Port Facility in Cuba during the...
Soviet cargo ship with eight missile transporters and canvas-covered missiles lashed on deck during its return voyage from Cuba to the Soviet Union....
President John F. Kennedy speaks during a televised speech to the nation about the Cuban missile crisis February 11, 1962 in Washington, DC. Former...
Male and female pupils of Midhurst Grammar School on strike, prepare to march in protest against the Cuban Missile Crisis in Midhurst, West Sussex,...
Cuba's President of the Republic, Osvaldo Dorticos Torrado, addresses the United Nations General Assembly to denounce U.S. Aggression against his...