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The start of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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Military moves to the Southeast due to photos from a U-2 plane involving additional sites.
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Minister Andrei Gromyko believes that Soviet aid to Cuba is purely defensive and is not a threat to the United States.
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JFK's advisors continue the debate of necessary actions that need to be taken to stop the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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JFK and his top advisors decide on the quarantine and plan to develop naval units to begin.
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Tactical air command tells JFK that an air strike could not guarantee 100% destruction of missiles.
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Kennedy establishes the Executive Committee of the National Security Council and has them meet daily during the crisis.
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The ships of the naval quarantine fleet move into place around Cuba. Soviet submarines threaten the quarantine by moving into the Caribbean area.
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Chairman Khrushchev responds to Kennedy's letter.
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Knowing that some missiles in Cuba were now operational, the president drafts a letter to Premier Khrushchev, wanting him to change the events that are supposed to be occurring.
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In a private letter, Fidel Castro wants Nikita Khrushchev to initiate a nuclear first strike against the United States in the event of an American invasion of Cuba.
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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.
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Cuban missile crisis ends.
