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Near atomic annihilation: Cuban Missle Crisis, the Stand-off

Phone Call with General Eisenhower during Cuban Missile Crisis | John F. Kennedy Library Foundation |

Sound recording of a telephone conversation held on October 28, 1962, between President John F. Kennedy and former President Dwight D. Eisenhower. They discuss dealings with Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev for ending the Cuban Missile Crisis. [White House Operator?] connects the call at President Kennedy's request.

Cuban missile crisis ... Kennedy ordered removal of NATO missiles in Italy and Turkey pointed at the USSR.

On October 28, 1962, Kennedy and Khrushchev reached a secret deal about the Cuban Missile Crisis: the US would remove its nuclear missiles in Turkey if the Soviets removed their missiles in Cuba. JFK called President Eisenhower to brief him on the developments, though he did not mention the US's side of the bargain.

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On October 26, Kennedy told his advisors that an airstrike on the missile sites appeared to be the only way to resolve the crisis. Concurrently, however, an ABC News correspondent relayed to the White House that a Soviet agent had suggested to him that the Soviets might be willing to remove their missiles if the U.S. agreed not to invade Cuba. That evening, Nikita Khrushchev sent Kennedy a message in which he insisted that the Soviet Union had no interest in triggering "the catastrophe of thermonuclear war" but instead was ready to "take measures" to resolve the crisis. Khrushchev also suggested that the solution was missile removal combined with a pledge not to invade.

Khrushchev then sent Kennedy a second message, writing that any resolution of the crisis required the United States to remove its Jupiter missiles from Turkey. About fifteen of these nuclear intermediate ballistic missiles had been in Turkey since the late 1950s and were a symbol of America's defense commitment to the country.

No sooner had Khrushchev's second message reached Kennedy than an American U-2 spy plane was shot down over Cuba. War seemed imminent, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff began preparing for conflict. However, Kennedy decided to try one last time for a diplomatic solution. He ignored Khrushchev's second message and replied only to the first communication. Kennedy promised that if the Soviets would remove the missiles, there would be no American invasion of Cuba.

In the meantime, the President's brother, Bobby, met secretly with the Soviet Ambassador to the United States. Bobby told him that the U.S. was planning to remove the Jupiter missiles from Turkey [and Italy] anyway but that this information must remain secret and could not be publicized as part of the solution to the crisis.

The next day, Khrushchev announced that Soviet missiles would be withdrawn from Cuba. The Cuban Missile Crisis was over; the U.S. removed its nuclear missiles from Turkey about six months later.

I spend my youth in the US for over ten years and lived through the Cuban missile crisis and experienced the threat of a thermonuclear war ... at the Lambert civilian airfield of St. Louis ... a line-up of six B-52 bombers fully loaded with atom bombs to travel to the USSR as the survival of human kind stood at the threshold of ANNIHILATION.

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