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Cuban Missile Crisis
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The Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis - 6 min
This newsreel presents what has been come to be known as the Cuban Missile Crisis, or the October Crisis. In the midst of the cold war, the U.S. discovered that the Soviet Union was placing strategc missiles in Cuba, just miles from Florida. Adlai Stevenson's remarks to the United Nations calling on suppurt from the international community are highlighted here.
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