This Month's Featured Story

This month marks the anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis...

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• Aerial Photograph of Missiles in Cuba (Our Documents)
• Cold War: Cuban Missile Crisis (Library of Congress)
• Cuban Missile Crisis (Avalon Project)
• Cuban Missile Crisis (History Channel)
• Cuban Missile Crisis (JFK Library & Museum)
• Cuban Missile Crisis (Teaching American History)
• No Time to Talk: The Cuban Missile Crisis
• Overview of the Cuban Missile Crisis (Khan Academy)
• The Cuban Missile Crisis (Cold War Museum)
• The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 (George Washington University)
• The Lessons of the Cuban Missile Crisis (Time)

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The US first obtained U-2 photographic evidence of the missiles on October 14, when a U-2 flight piloted by Major Richard Heyser took 928 pictures, capturing images of what turned out to be an SS-4 construction site at San Cristóbal, Pinar del Río Province, in western Cuba.

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A More Perfect Discussion

Was President Kennedy's naval 'quarantine' the best course of action during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

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