A spy photo of a ballistic missile base in San Cristobal, Cuba, taken in October of 1962. (Getty Images) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional ...

President Kennedy announces the Cuba blockade on Oct. 22, 1962, during the Cuban missile crisis. Photo by Keystone/Getty Images. Fifty years ago, on Oct. 22, 1962, the Washington Post landed on my ...

President John F. Kennedy lived with his family in the White House for less than three years. His brief presidency was postmarked by increasing tensions with Russia, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and ...

As we watch Obama and Romney wrestle for the presidency, we would do well to remind ourselves of what’s at stake by looking back 50 years to the Cuban Missile Crisis. Historian David Coleman ...

Cuban missile crisis: ... A U-2 spy photo shows a medium-range ballistic missile base in San Cristobal, ... When White House tapes from the era were carefully analyzed by scholars years later, ...

Left, a secret map used by the Kennedy administration during the Cuban missile crisis. Right, Fidel Castro and Nikita Khrushchev at the United Nations in 1960. (AP Photo / Marty Lederhandler) By ...

During the Cuban missile crisis of October 1962, the men who ran the affairs of the United States, ... At the White House, President Kennedy relied for advice on a select inner circle ...

Cuban Missile Crisis. Events of ... 1962 file photo after signing a proclamation formally putting into effect the U.S. arms ... Throughout that crisis, Pye Chamberlayne, Jr. was at the White House.

Hysteria over ‘War of the Worlds’ radio show in 1938, Truman survives shooting attempt in 1950, Cuban missile crisis in 1962, Phillies win Series in 2008 DelawareOnline.com (Wilmington, DE) ...

President Kennedy’s 1962 map of military targets during the Cuban missile crisis goes up for auction, reminding us how close the world came to nuclear war. CNN values your feedback 1.