The Cuban Missile Crisis, Part 1 of 2
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Cuban Missiles Are in Situ
Senator Keating and New York Senator believed these stories, and he started making speeches attacking the Kennedy administration for not protecting the United States. In response to Keating's speeches, Kennedy on September 4th, 1962 gives a press conference where he announces that he will not allow any missiles, any offensive missiles, meaning ballistic missiles, to be brought to Cuba. They could bring surface to air missiles, which are wholly defensive, but they could not bring any offensive missiles to Cuba. Zero, Nada. You can imagine then the sinking feeling the CIA analysts feel in their stomachs when, on October the 15th, they realize that the missiles are in fact in situ. American U2 reconnaissance flights
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