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Collection: Cold War (US/Western Focus) - Fall 2024 (HIST 27/127)

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CIA briefing board for JFK showing range of Soviet MRBMs (Bobby Kennedy on 16 October jokingly asked whether the missiles could hit Oxford, Mississippi, where federal marshals had intervened only two weeks earlier, so Oxford was included). PSALM was the special codeword for intelligence data on missiles in Cuba, a compartment created at President Kennedy’s insistence for greater control of this sensitive information.

CIA Memorandom on Soviet Antisemitism

"Director's View of Soviet Anti-Semitism: Psychological Preparation for War"

Cold War Crisis

Confrontation at the United Nations, October 25, 1962: deputy NPIC director David Parker points out the photographic evidence while U.S. ambassador Adlai Stevenson (at right) describes the photos. USSR ambassador Valerian Zorin is presiding at far left.

Cuba: Security, Missile Crisis: Planning Subcommittee, October 1962: 24-28

A collection of declassified documents from John F. Kennedy's presidency about the Cuban Missile Crisis. To find the entire collection, use the link to John F. Kennedy's Presidential Library and Museum archives.

CUBA. 1963. CUBA. Havana. 1963. Soviet missiles being paraded during the height of the Cuban missile Crisis.

1963. Soviet missiles being paraded during the height of the Cuban missile Crisis.

Cuban Missile Crisis Gift Calendar given to JBK by JFK

A silver-plated wooden paperweight calendar given to First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy from President John F. Kennedy to mark the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Dalton Trumbo

Do Colleges Have to Hire Red Professors?

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Edward Dmytryk, film director

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