THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS

OCTOBER 1962

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3 4 5 Jet fighters transferred to Florida            6 7
 

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U-2 flight ordered by Kennedy        9

Are there IRBM sites in Cuba?          10 11 12 13 The Cuban Missile Crisis begins            14
Photographs reveal missile sites in Cuba                    15 Kennedy meets with ExComm

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Further missile sires discovered in Cuba            17 Kennedy meets with Soviet Minister Gromyko      18 JFK meets with Secretary of defence, McNamara    19 Kennedy's campaign trip cancelled due to ill health        20 Kennedy decides on quarantine for time being      21

Kennedy tells public of crisis

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Press print 1st stories of Cuban crisis           23

Further press coverage and 1st letter to the editor    24 Editorial and letters to the Editor concern Cuba           25  Khrushchev proposes conditional end to crisis       26  Second conditional proposal to end crisis             27 Khrushchev agrees to remove missiles from Cuba              28
Media coverage continues     29 Editorials look to explain crisis           30 Editorial looks  beyond Cuba           31        

 

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