And even after six decades there is an important lesson to be learned. The story is familiar to most of our more seasoned readers. In the wake of the failed Bay of Pigs invasions, Cuba's communist ...

MONROE, La. (KNOE) - In October 1962, the United States and the Soviet Union were at a stand-off for 13 days. U.S. spy planes had discovered construction of Soviet nuclear missile sites in Cuba. The U ...

The world was going to end. That was all you knew, or thought you knew, on October 16, 1962. The news came on the TV that day. It had to do with Russia and Cuba and nuclear missiles 90 miles away from ...

New Delhi: Miscalculation, misinformation and misperceptions in the fall of 1962 almost brought the two superpowers of the time, the US and the USSR, to the brink of nuclear conflict, as the sandy ...

(WKYT) - In the lead-up to America turning 250 years old, we are looking back every day at ‘This Day In History.’ On this day in 1962, President John F. Kennedy addressed the Cuban Missile Crisis and ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Roswell Gilpatrick was a Deputy Secretary for the Department of Defense with one video in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1962 Compiled Program.