Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
"Council talk re: Cuba", undated
Item — Box 12, Folder: 42
Scope and Contents
Incomplete hand written draft.
Dates:
undated
Series 23: Cuban Missile Crisis, 1960-1963, bulk: 1962 - 1963
Series
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, notes, and printed material. McCloy served as Chairman of the Coordinating Committee of the U.S. on the Cuban Missile Crisis, and worked to achieve a peaceful negotiated settlement to this situation. The Cuban Missile Crisis was a major confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over the presence of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba. Although the United States learned in July 1962 that the Soviet Union had begun missile shipments to Cuba, it wasn't...
Dates:
1960-1963; Majority of material found within 1962 - 1963