American President John F. Kennedy was under pressure to stand up to the communist Soviet Union. This would influence some of the decisions he took in dealing with the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Sixty-two years ago today the country was caught up in the Cuban Missile Crisis when we almost ... more than a year later ...

Many contradictions emerge from the nine published accounts of the confrontation between the Soviet submarine B-59 and American antisubmarine-warfare units during the Cuban missile crisis ... app. A ...

Promising a new generation of leadership, John F. Kennedy stated he would guide the nation out of the so-called “conservative rut.” Challenges: The arms race with the Soviet Union continued and ...

Direct conflict was averted only when American President John F. Kennedy and Soviet premier ... the war in Ukraine has produced an echo of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Continuing a policy of serial ...

Gordon F. Sander is a writer and historian ... well as the parallel tensions between Kennedy and the chiefs — came to a boil during the Cuban Missile Crisis. The flashover point took place ...

Clint Hill, the Secret Service agent who ran into the line of fire to shield President John ... the Cuban missile crisis, the assassinations of JFK and his brother Robert F. Kennedy, as well ...