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This Day in History: Cuban Missile Crisis intensifies on ‘Black Saturday’

(WHSV) - 63 years ago on Oct. 27, 1962, the world was on the brink of all-out nuclear war amid the Cuban Missile Crisis. In an incident that came to be known as Black Saturday, the U.S. military was ...
Hartford Courant

Opinion: What JFK’s Cuban missile speech still teaches us

In today’s highly charged political environment, in which a president’s handling of international crises, however competent or inept, is immediately subject to hyperbole and sanctification by ...
The Aviationist

The Overlooked Role of the Vought RF-8A and VFP-62 in the Cuban Missile Crisis

U.S. Navy and Marine Corps RF-8A Crusaders played an important, often forgotten, high-speed low-level and dangerous recon role during a time the world was on the brink. On Oct. 14, 1962, United States ...
WLRN

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

This article is republished from The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. Renata Keller is an associate professor of history at the ...
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 ...