President John F. Kennedy alerts the American people to the Cuban missile crisis, declaring a naval blockade to prevent further missile shipments to the island country 90 miles (145 km) off the coast of the U.S. The crisis brought the two superpowers to the brink of nuclear war.
The 13-day confrontation which started when the U.S. discovered Soviet nuclear missiles being deployed in Cuba ended with the removal of the Russian missiles from Cuba and a U.S. agreement not to invade Cuba and a secret removal of U.S. missiles from Turkey. President Kennedy Speech
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