US Handling of the Cuban Missile Crisis
These videos provide both the US perspective from John F. Kennedy and USSR perspective from Sergei Khrushchev, son of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. Both detail the actions taken by both nations during the time of the crisis as well as the reasons for doing so. Please click on the video to view it in the browser.
John F. Kennedy addresses the nation about the developing situation in Cuba and how he plans to impose a naval quarantine to prevent more Soviet weapons from reaching Cuban soil.
Sergei Khrushchev, son of former Soviet Prime Minister Nikita Khrushchev details the actions taken by the USSR during the Cuban Missile Crisis as well as the reasons for doing so.