Council on Foreign Relations

President John F. Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev Make a Deal—Cuban Missile Crisis, Day Thirteen

The United States and the Soviet Union pulled back from the nuclear brink, chastened by their brush with nuclear Armageddon.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Trump administration has released thousands of unredacted files on the JFK assassination. Here's what they tell us

Tens of thousands of records related to the assassination of President John F Kennedy have been made public for the first time. Conspiracy theories, new timelines and suspicions of KGB links were ...
BBC

'They handled it exactly the right way': How the Kennedys averted the 1962 Cuban missile crisis

Between 14 and 28 October 1962, the world came to the brink of nuclear war. According to insiders who spoke to the BBC, the expertise of US President John F Kennedy and his brother Robert saved the ...
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JFK's assassination: What to know about the president's tragic death at the hands of Lee Harvey Oswald

President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on Nov. 22, 1963, by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on Nov. 22, 1963 He was riding in a presidential motorcade in ...
Council on Foreign Relations

“Black Saturday” Threatens a Calamity as President John F. Kennedy Makes Two Offers—Cuban Missile Crisis, Day Twelve

Sometimes luck and personal courage matter as much as skillful diplomacy in preventing catastrophes.