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Cuban Missile Crisis from the Cuban Perspective

In this video, we examine the Cuban Missile Crisis through the eyes of Cuba itself. We explore how Fidel Castro and the Cuban ...
The Baltimore Sun

A look back at when the world almost ended

What a delicious commentary on the Cold War days and more recent doomsdays (“Memories from the end of the world,” Oct. 14)! I, too, recall the “ends of the world” including the Cold War, the Cuban ...
Cleveland Daily Banner

Local veteran recounts Cuban Missile Crisis

More than 63 years ago, the world narrowly escaped a nuclear third world war during the Cuban Missile Crisis. A veteran, who ...
insider.si.edu

The armageddon letters : Kennedy, Khrushchev, Castro in the Cuban missile crisis / James G. Blight and Janet M. Lang ; graphic narrative by Andrew Whyte with storyline and ...

Foreword / Peter Almond -- Introduction. Armageddon in retrospect: "carrying the fire" of the Cuban Missile Crisis into the twenty-first century -- Cast of characters. Three leaders/three crises -- ...
Time

A Key Lesson of the Cuban Missile Crisis? The U.S. Needs Allies

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 of American States, called by President Kennedy, to ...
Times Union

The lost history of Latin America’s role in averting catastrophe during the Cuban missile crisis

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Renata Keller, University of Nevada, Reno (THE CONVERSATION) Sixty-three years ago, ...
The Conversation

The lost history of Latin America’s role in averting catastrophe during the Cuban missile crisis

Renata Keller received funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Philosophical Society. Sixty-three years ago, President John F. Kennedy single-handedly brought the world ...
AOL

The Lesson of the Cuban Missile Crisis? The U.S. Needs Allies

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 of American States, called by President Kennedy, to ...