JFK Informs Public about Cuban Missile Crisis

In October 1962, the United States and the Soviet Union faced off in a 13-day battle during the Cold War. The standoff was because of the missiles that the Soviets installed in Cuba, which was just 90 miles from America. Then-President John F. Kennedy informed his constituents about the threat to national security.

Many feared that it would lead to a nuclear war, but thankfully, Soviet Union’s Nikita Khrushchev agreed to remove the missiles in Cuba in agreement that the United States would not colonize Cuba. In 2000, a movie about the Cuban Missile Crisis titled Thirteen Days hit theaters.