1960s Timeline

Oct. 28, 1962 - On this recorded telephone call, President Kennedy briefs former President Eisenhower on the latest developments in the ...

Oct. 28, 1962 - Premier Fidel Castro demanded today that the U.S. evacuate its naval base at Guantanamo Bay. This was taken in Washington...

Oct. 28, 1962 - A U.S. plane flew over Soviet Far Eastern territory today, but both President Kennedy and Premier Khrushchev sought to...

Oct. 28, 1962 - President Kennedy and Premier Khrushchev reached apparent agreement today on a formula to end the crisis over Cuba and to...

Oct. 27, 1962 - Richard M. Nixon (pictured with Fidel Castro in 1959) fully endorsed President Kennedy’s “strong action” on Cuba tonight....

Oct. 27, 1962 - President Kennedy revealed tonight that Premier Khrushchev had offered an acceptable solution to the Cuban crisis and...

Oct. 27, 1962 - Pickets and counter-pickets paraded before the White House today urging President Kennedy to get tougher with Cuba and,...

Oct. 27, 1962 - White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger briefs the press on the latest developments in the Cuban Crisis. #jfk #cuba...

Oct. 27, 1962 - Here is a recorded meeting on the Cuban Crisis held this morning between President Kennedy, National Security Advisor...

Oct. 27, 1962 - A U-2 reconnaissance plane is missing and presumed lost over Cuba. Other unarmed planes on surveillance missions over...

Oct. 26, 1962 - The White House made public tonight a new intelligence report showing that construction of Soviet missile bases in Cuba...

Oct. 26, 1962 - President Kennedy “looks wonderful” and “very relaxed” under the tensions of the Cuba crisis, a visitor said today. The...

Oct. 26, 1962 - A state of emergency was declared throughout India today. President Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (pictured) issued a defense...

Oct. 26, 1962 - On this secretly recorded phone call, an angry President Kennedy chastises State Dept. Press Spokesman Lincoln White....

Oct. 26, 1962 - The Army moved anti-aircraft missiles today into Key West, Fla., located just 90 miles north of Havana. Military...

Oct. 26, 1962 - White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger informs a news conference that Soviet construction on missile sites in Cuba...

Oct. 26, 1962 - The Soviet Union agreed today to keep its vessels away from the United States blockade area around Cuba for the time...

Oct. 26, 1962 - The Navy stopped, boarded, and searched a Soviet-chartered freighter, the Marucia, on the way to Cuba today after...

Oct. 25, 1962 - Adlai Stevenson dramatically challenged Valerian A. Zorin in the U.N. Security Council today to deny the U.S. charge that...

Oct. 25, 1962 - Former President Harry S. Truman (pictured center in January) canceled today his political campaigning because of the...