... during a televised speech to the nation about the strategic blockade of Cuba,
to give Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev more time to consider the U.S. action by.
YOU MAY BE CAPTAIN OF THIS SHIP, BUT I AM COMMANDER OF THIS FLEET ,
the ship, deeming it unlikely that the tanker was carrying offensive weapons. ... In November, Kennedy called off the blockade, and by the end of the year all ...
President John F. Kennedy, after learning that the Soviet Union was sending
... submarine B-59, which was lurking near the U.S. blockade line around Cuba. ... The Soviet captain was in favor, but Vasili Arkhipov, B-59's second in command,
They were ordered by the Soviet naval command to change course
Secretary McNamara reported that the Lebanese ship which was to have
Was the Russian Premier Khrushchev testing the young Kennedy? Kennedy made a pivotal decision by ordering the U.S. Navy to create a blockade around the
After consultation with them, Kennedy ordered a naval blockade on October 22