The Joint Chiefs' Secret Meetings During the Crisis

JFK held secret meetings with the joint chiefs on October 16th, 1962. Only 30 pages of notes are known to have been taken from them before they were destroyed in 1974. Kennedy was off lunching with Adlai Stevenson at the same time as these talks. The meeting concluded that we're going to have to bomb or invade Cuba. But it's not clear if JFK and McNamara ever actually made such a decision.