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This document contains a first hand account of the Cuban Missile Crisis and how it was addressed by US officials.

Miss Florence Fowler Lyons displays UNESCO publications and criticizes UNESCO as preaching internationalism and outright atheism in a speech before a meeting of the American Public Relations Forum held at the Immaculate Conception Parish Center. She…

The Executive Committee of the National Security Council (ExComm), meeting in the White House Cabinet Room, sorted through intelligence and advised the President during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Governor Nelson Rockefeller recording (and possibly sending out a live radio broadcast) a message about "Operation Goodwill". Operation Goodwill was originally a Cold War operation that sent money and goods to foreign countries, as a form of global…

This is a report on meeting of the Paramilitary Study Group concerning the Bay of Pigs operation.

Announcement of the launch of the first artificial "sputnik" satellite by the Soviet Union.

In this press release, President Truman announced that he was committing American forces to a combined United Nations military effort in Korea. The decision was made after war broke out along the 38th parallel on June 25, 1950. On that day, North…

Formerly classified "Top Secret," this document is President Harry Truman's order relieving General Douglas MacArthur of his Korean War commands due to insubordination, and designating General Matthew Ridgway as his successor. It includes a statement…