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Che Guevara on Cuban Banknote

The Cuban Missile Crisis @ 60
Getting to Know the Cubans: Part Two

Washington, D.C., November 3, 2022 – As Cuban-Soviet ties grew stronger from late 1960 through early 1961, the Cubans repeatedly asked for military assistance and security…

Nov 3, 2022

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One of the U.S. Jupiter missiles in Turkey that Kennedy secretly traded for the removal of Soviet missiles in Cuba.

The Cuban Missile Crisis @ 60
The Cuban Missile Crisis Cover-Up

October 27, 1962: Cuban anti-aircraft gunners open fire on low-level reconnaissance planes over San Cristobal site no. 1 (a Soviet SA-2 missile shoots down Maj. Rudolf Anderson’s U-2 on this day).

The Cuban Missile Crisis @ 60
The Most Dangerous Day

Cuban anti aircraft guns target US planes Oct 27

The Cuban Missile Crisis @ 60
Nuclear Crisis Lasted 59 Days, Not Just 13

President Kennedy with his close friend British Ambassador David Ormsby-Gore

The Cuban Missile Crisis @ 60
Briefing NATO Allies

Stevenson and J.Kennedy

The Cuban Missile Crisis @ 60
How John F. Kennedy Sacrificed His Most Consequential Crisis Advisor

collage Raul Fidel Castro and Khrushchev

Getting to Know the Cubans: Khrushchev Meets the Castro Brothers

The Underwater Cuban Missile Crisis at 60

A crop of Kennedy's exec order

Cuba Embargoed: U.S. Trade Sanctions Turn Sixty

President Kennedy receives the flag of the 2506 Brigade

Saving the Bay of Pigs Prisoners: Did JFK Send a Secret Warning to Fidel Castro – through Brazil?

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