1960s Timeline

Oct. 24, 1962 - Premier Khrushchev suggested today a summit meeting to avert the danger of thermonuclear war with the U.S. over the Cuban...

Oct. 24, 1962 - The blockade to prevent any more offensive weapons from reaching Cuba went into effect at 10 o’clock this morning. The...

Oct. 23, 1962 - New York City residents react to President Kennedy's speech last night revealing the presence of Soviet missiles in...

Oct. 23, 1962 - The Soviet Union challenged today the right of the U.S. to impose a quarantine on the shipment of weapons of any type to...

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Oct. 22, 1962 - Here is a recording of a telephone call today between President Kennedy and former President Dwight D. Eisenhower...

Oct. 18, 1962 - Andrei A. Gromyko (third from left) met with President Kennedy today in a continuation of the exchange of views between...

Oct. 16, 1962 - Premier Ahmed Ben Bella of Algeria (center) arrived in Cuba today for a 24-hour state visit. Premier Fidel Castro used...

Sept. 26, 1962 - The Soviet Communist party called today for a more effective campaign against religion. An editorial in Pravda, the...

Sept. 24, 1962 - Here is President Kennedy’s welcome address to President Mohammad Ayub Khan of Pakistan at Quonset Point Naval Air ...

Sept. 24, 1962 - In what was billed as a political debate between a conservative and a “hipster,” William F. Buckley Jr. (pictured) and...

Sept. 13, 1962 - Richard M. Nixon called today for a “three-pronged anti-subversive program that would make California a shining example...

Sept. 13, 1962 - President Kennedy introduced today's press conference with a statement on the Cuban situation. Here it is in full. #jfk...

Sept. 13, 1962 - President Kennedy said today that the U.S. would move swiftly against Cuba to defend its security, but military action...

Sept. 12, 1962 - A Cuban Air Force pilot instructor, who defected last week in a Czechoslovakian-built training plane, reported today...

Sept. 11, 1962 - The Soviet Union warned today that any attack by the U.S. on Cuba or upon Soviet ships bound for Cuba would mean war....

Sept. 6, 1962 - Moscow television tonight took the unusual step of presenting a documentary film that showed New York City and its tall...

Sept. 5, 1962 - A high defense official declared today that “there is no doubt that either the U.S. or the Soviet Union can now place...

Aug. 29, 1962 - President Kennedy took issue sharply today with Congressional advocates of heavy cuts in his $4,672,000,000 foreign aid...

Aug. 29, 1962 - President Kennedy firmly rejected today Congressional suggestions that the U.S. invade Cuba because of the alleged...