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President Kennedy found out about the Cuban missile crisis.
President Kennedy, principal of foreign policy and national defense officials are briefed on the U-2 findings. Then they begin disusions on how to respond to the challenge with Cubans. -
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Cuban missile crisis
The Cubans had a missile base amed at the United States and threatened to fire the missiles at the United States. -
President Kennedy move military bases south.
American military units begin moving bases to the Southeastern part of the U.S. as photos given from another U-2 flight have shown additional sites and 16 to 32 missiles. President Kennedy then attends a brief service at St. Matthew's Cathedral in relations of the National Day of Prayer. -
President Kennedy is visited by the Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko.
Kennedy, without revealing what he knows of the existence of the missiles. President Kennedy reads to Gromyko his warning of September 4 that the "gravest consequences" would follow Soviet introduced many wepends to Cuba. -
President Kennedy leaves for a campaign.
President Kennedys advisor stayed in Washington and continued debating what to do on the Cuban missil crisis. -
President Kennedy discussion for planes on Cuban missil crisis.
President Kennedy returns quickly to Washington and after five hours of discussion with top advisers decides on the plans for the Cuban missil crisis. Plans for deploying naval units are drawn up and work begins to on a speech to notify the people. -
President Kennedy goes to mass with his wife.
After president Kennedy attended Mass at St. Stephen's Church with Mrs. Kennedy. President Kennedy meets with General Walter Sweeney of the Tactical Air Command who tells him that an air strike could not guarantee 100% destruction of the missiles. -
President Kennedy calls former presidents.
President Kennedy calls former Presidents Hoover, Truman and Eisenhower to tell them the situation. Meetings to decide all actions continue. Kennedy formally creates the Executive Committee of the National Security Council and has it meet daily during the crisis. -
The United States seeks a different plan.
Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs Edwin Martin seeks a different plan of support from the Organization of American States. The Ambassador to the United Nations Adlai Stevenson lays the matter before the U.N. Security Council. -
President Kennedy said a famous speech.
His famous speek"You, Mr. President, are not declaring a quarantine, but rather are setting forth an ultimatum and threatening that if we do not give in to your demands you will use force. Consider what you are saying! And you want to persuade me to agree to this! What would it mean to agree to these demands? It would mean guiding oneself in one's relations with other countries not by reason, but by submitting to arbitrariness. You are no longer appealing to reason, but wish to intimidate us." -
President Kennedy wrote a letter to premier Khrushchev.
Knowing that there were some missiles in Cuba now operating, president Kennedy personally wrote a letter to Premier Khrushchev, again telling him to change the course of events. Soviet freighters turn and head back to Europe. The Bucharest, were only carrying petroleum products, were allowed through the quarantine line. -
A ship was searched for military supplies and they didn't find any.
A Soviet-chartered freighter is stopped at the quarantine line and searched for military supplies. There was no military supplies found and the ship is allowed to proceed to Cuba. Photographic evidence shows accelerated construction of the missile sites and the uncrating of Soviet IL-28 bombers at Cuban airfields. -
U.S. plane is shot down and pilote is killed.
A second letter from Moscow asked for tougher terms, including the removal of missiles from Turkey, which is received in Washington. Over Cuba, An American U-2 plane is shot down by a Soviet-supplied surface-to-air missile and the pilot, Major Rudolph Anderson, is killed. -
The missiles are removed.
The thirteen days of the most dangerous period of the Cuban missile crisis ends. Radio Moscow announces that the Soviet Union has accepted the proposed solution and releases the text of a Khrushchev letter saying that the missiles will be removed in exchange for a non-invasion pledge from the United States.
