On October 22, 1962, U.S. President John Fitzgerald Kennedy addressed the nation in a speech broadcast live on ... missile components on the island of Cuba. At the height of the Cold War, the ...

The discovery of Soviet missiles in Cuba in the autumn of 1962 led to the greatest foreign-policy crisis of Kennedy's presidency. His televised speech to the nation on 22 October 1962 provided an ...

President and Mrs. Kennedy greet members of the 2506 Cuban Invasion Brigade ... stopping the spread of communism in his inauguration speech two years before. America would, he said, "pay any ...

In what is known as the Cuban Missile Crisis, Kennedy placed a naval blockade ... He was 46 years old. In his inaugural speech, Kennedy famously declared, “Ask not what your country can do for you, ...

In a campaign speech for a Massachusetts State Senate ... President Kennedy refused to launch an invasion. Following the Cuban Missile Crisis, Kennedy’s stature rose in the eyes of his ...

A claim that former President John F. Kennedy ordered 1,200 Cuban cigars right before outlawing them has been circulating online for years. However, Corbin Apkin, an archivist at the John F.

Had President Kennedy survived to a second ... that Cuba is still a dictatorship. The Cuban government restricts basic freedoms like the freedoms of speech and assembly, and it owns the media.

President Trump says the the 30,000-person facility for undocumented migrants will house "the worst criminal illegal aliens".