1960s Timeline

Oct. 24, 1962 - U Thant (pictured with President Kennedy last year), Acting Secretary General of the United Nations, addressed “urgent”...

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 - United States patrol planes have spotted 25 Soviet merchant ships on the way to Cuba, their courses unchanged in the last...

Oct. 23, 1962 - The U.S. blockade against ships delivering offensive weapons to Cuba will go into effect tomorrow at 10 a.m. EST....

Oct. 23, 1962 - The Kennedy Administration believes its blockade of Cuba caught Moscow off guard and interrupted a well-mapped Soviet...

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 strengthening of U.S. military bases continued today in Key West, Fla. (pictured), and elsewhere through the Florida...

Oct. 23, 1962 - Premier Fidel Castro said today that the U.S. blockade of Cuba was the act of a pirate and declared that anyone who tried...

Oct. 23, 1962 - Behind the decision to impose a blockade on Cuba lies a clandestine program of aerial reconnaissance in which...

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...

Oct. 23, 1962 - Dwight D. Eisenhower called on all Americans today to assist President Kennedy in the present crisis. He said: “As in all...

Oct. 23, 1962 - All of Cuba’s military forces have been mobilized as a result “of the news from the United States,” the Havana radio said...

Oct. 22, 1962 - Governor Nelson Rockefeller announced tonight that he had summoned the New York State Defense Council and the Civil...

Oct. 22, 1962 - The White House announced tonight that President Kennedy and Vice President Johnson would make no further political...

Oct. 22, 1962 - American ships and planes began preparing tonight to impose a blockade of Cuba. U.S. forces are under orders to thwart...

Oct. 22, 1962 - This is the official interpretation of President Kennedy’s speech tonight, and orders to American forces bear the...

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Oct. 22, 1962 - President Kennedy imposed a naval and air “quarantine” tonight on the shipment of offensive military equipment to Cuba....

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