Kennedy warns Moscow against missiles in Cuba
1962 · Event
Responding to reports of Soviet shipments to Cuba, President Kennedy publicly warns that offensive ground-to-ground missiles on the island would raise 'the gravest issues'. Moscow assures him, repeatedly and falsely, that it would never place them there.
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