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The first warning
In a United Nations meeting involving America and Russia, a warning from Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko expressing that an attack on Cuba will pull the soviet Union into it as well. -
The U-2 flight
Kennedy orders a U-2 flight to fly over cuba in hopes of capturing pictures of misslies. It is a success and photographs show that the Soviets have missiles in Cuba. -
double checking
The National Photographic Intelligence Center reviews the photoes and find they have very close similar compents to the photos in the U.S.S.R. McGeorge Bundy will tell the president the next day. -
Ex-comm
Bundy tells Kennedy about the missiles. Kennedy informs his advisors in what to do. -
Talk of airstrikes, and more U-2 flights
The Joint Chiefs of Staff and especially the Air Force strongly argue for an air strike. A U-2 flight on the night of the 17th, the military discoveres intermediate range nuclear missiles. -
Gromyko
Gromyko and Kennedy meet for two hours. They discuss about the missiles and Gromyko says there only for the defense of Cuba. -
Campaigning
Kennedy departs Washington for scheduled campaign speeches in Cleveland and the West Coast. -
Defensive quarantine
the rest of Kennedy's campaign is cancelled. Kennedy meets with his advisors and orders a defensive quarantine instituted as soon as possible. -
Getting more serious
Kennedy decides on a quarantine of Cuba for the time being. Another U-2 flight that day reveals bombers and Migs are being rapidly assembled and cruise missile sites readied. -
DEFCON 3 and reinforced
Guantanamo is reinforced. U.S. goes to DEFCON 3. Kennedy is shown photographic evidence of the Soviet missile installations. -
Quarantine and talks with Dobrynin
Kennedy orders a low flight over Cuba. U.S. ships are positioned along the quarantine line. Robert Kennedy is sent to talk with Ambassador Dobrynin. -
Pressure mounting
The military forces go to DEFCON 2, a record in the U.S history. Some of the ships turn around or slow down except for one. -
The proposal of withdraw
EX-COMM discusses a proposal to withdraw U.S. missiles from Turkey in exchange for the withdrawal of Soviet missiles in Cuba. -
No hault in the preparing in missiles
Kennedy says that the quarantine cant force the Soviet's to remove the missiles. Khrushchev sends another letter to Kennedy proposing removing his missiles if Kennedy would publicly announce never to invade Cuba. -
The day before the end
A new letter from Khrushchev arrives, proposing a public trade of Soviet missiles in Cuba for U.S. missile in Turkey. An American U-2 is shot down over Cuba killing the pilot, Major Rudolf Anderso n. Dobrynin and Robert Kennedy meet and discuss the price of removing the missiles from Cuba. -
We live another day
Khrushchev announces over Radio Moscow that he has agreed to remove the missiles from Cuba.
