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50th Anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis: LIVE Coverage on Oct. 14, 2012, 12:30-5p ET
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2:42Now PlayingFifty years to the day that American U-2 planes photographed startling evidence of Soviet missile bases in Cuba that tested the young Kennedy administration, American History TV will be live from the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston. There, a gathering of historians, scholars, filmmakers and journalists will come together for a 50th anniversary retrospective of the historic 13 days that came to be known as the Cuban Missile Crisis. Participants include Sergei Khrushchev, the son of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev—President Kennedy's counterpart in a military and political confrontation that threatened to lead to nuclear war.
In this clip, President Kennedy speaks to the nation from the White House on October 22, 1962.
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