Cuban Missile Crisis 50th anniversary marked by new exhibit - Telegraph.co.uk [getdailynow.blogspot.com]
In October 1962, the world stood at the brink of nuclear war as the United States and the Soviet Union faced off over missiles in Fidel Castro's Cuba.
On Sunday October 14, 1962, an American U-2 spy plane flew over Cuba taking photos of the suspected installations that the US said was clear evidence of Soviet missiles being deployed on the island sparking the so called Cuban Missile Crisis.
US President John F Kennedy ordered a naval blockade of Cuba to prevent further material from reaching the island and demanded the Soviets remove the missiles and destroy the sites.
After a tense standoff, including a heated emergency UN session, President Kennedy made a proposal to Premier Nikita Khrushchev and the Soviets withdrew the missiles after the US pledged to never invade Cuba and secretly promised to withdraw its nuclear missiles from Turkey.
"The Cuban Missile Crisis was really the most dangerous moment in history, it is the closest the world ever came to nuclear war," said the curator of the Kennedy Library, Stacey Bredhoff.
A new exhibit marking the 50th anniversary of the crisis has opened in Washington.
"To the Brink: JFK and the Cuban Missile Crisis" features clandestine real-time White House recordings from President Kennedy's meetings with his advisors, archive footage, secret correspondence between Khrushchev and President Kennedy, and CIA-prepared personality studies of the Soviet leader and Cuba's Castro.
The exhibit, located at the National Archives Building, is due to run until February 3.
Contains footage from Reuters
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