https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/jfk-red-threat/ Kennedy believed his first diplomatic meeting with Nikita Khrushchev would be a lesson in ...

A veteran correspondent’s memoir reveals the humanity and misjudgment of the Soviet leader who sparked the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Nikita Khrushchev continued to aid in the spread of communism around the world and Kennedy wanted to show the American public he would not be bullied by the Soviet premier. John F. Kennedy ...

John F. Kennedy was Castro’s adversary; Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet premier, was his patron. At one point, I mentioned the letter he wrote to Khrushchev at the height of the crisis ...

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Premier Nikita ... in full swing. Khrushchev added that he was ready to have representatives of the U.N. "verify the dismantling of these {weapons{." In his letter to President Kennedy, he also ...

Khrushchev gave one gun to President Dwight ... Eisenhower's successor as President, John F Kennedy, was in the White House when the missile crisis came to a head two years later.

The new young President John F. Kennedy faced off with the Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro and the seasoned communist Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. The outcome was uncertain. Written and ...