U.S. President John F. Kennedy announced that American reconnaissance planes discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, marking the beginning of the Cuban Missile Crisis on this day in 1962.

ABILENE, Texas — Sixty-two years ago today the country was caught up in the Cuban Missile Crisis when we almost ... a year later after President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Oct. 22, 1962, in a nationally broadcast address, President John F. Kennedy revealed the presence of Soviet-built ...

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President Kennedy set up a special three-man committee today to handle negotiations looking toward an end to the Cuban crisis ... s promise to dismantle the missile bases.

Throughout that crisis, Pye Chamberlayne, Jr. was at the White House. He knows the story of the tense Cuban days well. Pye Chamberlayne: "On the night of October 22nd, President Kennedy made what ...

Kennedy revealed the presence of Soviet-built missile bases under construction in Cuba and announced a naval blockade of all offensive military equipment being shipped to the Communist island nation.

This book rewrites the conventional history of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis by drawing on secret transcripts of ... memoranda of conversations with Castro, John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, and UN ...

President-elect Donald Trump has encouraged him to “go wild on health” but has not made clear what role Mr. Kennedy will play. By Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Rebecca Davis O’Brien Sheryl Gay ...