Browse Items (42 total)

"What you need, man, is a revolution like mine"

Valtman portrays Fidel Castro (1927- ) towering above small figures who represent Cuba and Brazil. As Castro advises Brazil to have a communist…

When President Kennedy was briefed early on in the Cuban Missile Crisis, he used this map to make annotations of the locations of some of the missile…

Land redistribution

Cartoon shows Brazilian president João Goulart under a rock slide which has just come down a mountain side. Overthrown by a military uprising after…

Audio recording of President John F. Kennedy’s radio and television address to the nation regarding the former Soviet Union’s military presence in…

Marchers for Allende

Photograph showing a crowd of people marching to support the election of Salvador Allende for president in Santiago, Chile.

Glorious Victory

This is a painting that depicts the 1954 Guatemalan Coup. This was painted in the same year as the coup reflecting a leftist perspective of the coup…

Khrushchev expresses outrage at Kennedy’s establishment of quarantine in Cuba.

The First U-2 Photographs of Soviet Missiles in Cuba 1962 Image 2/2

U-2 photograph of MRBM site two nautical miles away from the Los Palacios deployment—the second set of MRBMs found in Cuba. This site was subsequently…

Memo from Mr. Martin to Under Secretary Concerning A Contingency Plan for Brazil (18855): 12/12/1963

This document is a memo describing possible US responses to varying changes to the Goulart Regime in Brazil. It outlines what those changes may be,…