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JFK learns that Cuba has missiles. JFK immediately starts talking with high officials to see what plans are. They have two: they could do an air strike and invasion, or a naval quarantine with the threat of further military action.
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Meets with Crown Prince Hasan of Lybia to discuss ideas. After this, he heads to Connecticut for Democratic cogressional candidates.
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Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko visits Kenedy to assure that it is not a threat to the US. Kenedy does not reveal what he knows about the missiles.
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Kenedy takes a planned trip from Ohio to Ilinois to campaign
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Kenedy returns to Washington to make plans for naval attacks.
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After attending mass, Kenedy meets with Sweeny to which Sweeny says it's not a 100% gaurentee destruction on the missiles.
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President Kennedy phones former Presidents Hoover, Truman and Eisenhower to brief them on the situation. Meetings to coordinate all actions continue. As well as British Prime minister Macmillan
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Kenedy signed Proclomation 3504, authorizing the naval quarantine of Cuba. The naval fleet moves in towards Cuba.
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Chairman Khrushchev replies indignantly to President Kennedy's October 23 letter.
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Kenedy learns of Cuba having active missiles and writes a letter to Khrushchev urging him again to change the course of events.
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A Soviet-chartered freighter is stopped at the quarantine line and searched for contraband military supplies. None are found and the ship is allowed to proceed to Cuba. Photographic evidence shows accelerated construction of the missile sites and the uncrating of Soviet IL-28 bombers at Cuban airfields.
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A second letter from Moscow demanding tougher terms, including the removal of obsolete Jupiter missiles from Turkey, is received in Washington. Over Cuba, An American U-2 plane is shot down by a Soviet-supplied surface-to-air missile and the pilot, Major Rudolph Anderson, is killed. Kenedy writes a letter to widow Anderson about his death.
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Finally, everything is fine, missiles are canceled in Cuba, 13 days have ended
