Kennedy was under pressure to stand up to the communist Soviet Union. This would influence some of the decisions he took in dealing with the Cuban Missile Crisis. Narrator: In 1959, Fidel Castro ...

This might not sound like much, but it was in the middle of the Cuban Missile Crisis. A Different Russia: Khrushchev and Kennedy on a Collision Course by Marvin Kalb BookBaby, 532 pp. The idea of ...

He drew a parallel between the Cuban Missile Crisis, which nearly triggered a ... standoff was eventually resolved by President John F. Kennedy and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev after they ...