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    Kennedy delivered a televised address to inform Americans about the presence of Soviet nuclear missile sites in Cuba, which were capable of striking parts of the United States. He feared these missile bases and told Americans about their range to emphasize the serious threat. Kennedy tried to reassure Americans by saying the country was prepared to remove the threat and pursue peace, while also refusing to surrender to Soviet intimidation. The goal, he said, was peace with freedom for all in the hemisphere and beyond.

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    Kennedy delivered a televised address to inform Americans about the presence of Soviet nuclear missile sites in Cuba, which were capable of striking parts of the United States. He feared these missile bases and told Americans about their range to emphasize the serious threat. Kennedy tried to reassure Americans by saying the country was prepared to remove the threat and pursue peace, while also refusing to surrender to Soviet intimidation. The goal, he said, was peace with freedom for all in the hemisphere and beyond.

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    Kennedy delivered a televised address to inform Americans about the presence of Soviet nuclear missile sites in Cuba, which were capable of striking parts of the United States. He feared these missile bases and told Americans about their range to emphasize the serious threat. Kennedy tried to reassure Americans by saying the country was prepared to remove the threat and pursue peace, while also refusing to surrender to Soviet intimidation. The goal, he said, was peace with freedom for all in the hemisphere and beyond.

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    Directions: Answer the boxes on the right side of the paper from President Kennedy’s speech.

    The Cuban Missile Crisis - - Speech by John F. Kennedy


    On October 22, 1962, the White House announced that President John F. Kennedy would deliver a speech of
    the "highest national urgency." That evening, the president went on television and radio to inform the
    American people about the presence of Soviet missile sites in Cuba and his plans to remove them. As you
    read this excerpt from Kennedy's speech, think about why he demanded that the Soviets withdraw their
    missiles from Cuba.
    Good evening, my fellow citizens. This
    Government, as promised, has maintained the Why does Kennedy fear the missile
    closest surveillance of the Soviet military build-up bases?
    on the island of Cuba. Within the past week
    unmistakable evidence has established the fact
    that a series of offensive missile sites is now in
    preparation on that imprisoned island. The
    purposes of these bases can be none other than to
    provide a nuclear strike capability against the
    Western Hemisphere.
    Upon receiving the first preliminary hard Why do you think Kennedy told
    information of this nature last Tuesday morning Americans how far the missiles could
    (October 16) at 9:00 A.M., I directed that our
    surveillance be stepped up. And having now travel?
    confirmed and completed our evaluation of the
    evidence and our decision on a course of action,
    this Government feels obliged to report this new
    crisis to you in fullest detail.
    The characteristics of these new missile sites
    indicate two distinct types of installations.
    Several of them include medium-range ballistic
    missiles capable of carrying a nuclear warhead for
    a distance of more than 1,000 nautical miles.
    Each of these missiles, in short, is capable of
    striking Washington, D.C., the Panama Canal,
    Cape Canaveral, Mexico City, or any other city in
    the southeastern part of the United States, in How did Kennedy try to make
    Central America, or in the Caribbean area. . . .
    Americans feel better about themselves in
    This nation is prepared to present its case this Cold War conflict?
    against the Soviet threat to peace, and our own
    proposals for a: peaceful world, at any time and
    in any forum. . . .
    We
    . have in the past made strenuous efforts
    to limit the spread of nuclear weapons. We have
    proposed the elimination of all arms and
    military bases in a fair and effective
    disarmament treaty. We are prepared to
    discuss new proposals for the removal of
    tensions on both sides - including the possibili- How has Cuba been affected by the
    ties of a genuinely independent Cuba, free to Cold War?
    determine its own destiny. We have no wish to
    war with the Soviet Union, for we are a
    peaceful people who desire to live in peace with
    all other peoples.
    But it is difficult to settle or even discuss these
    problems in an atmosphere of intimidation.
    That is why this latest Soviet threat-or any
    other threat which is made either 24
    independently
    According to Kennedy’s speech, what
    or in response to our actions this week-must is the goal of America and how has
    and will be met with determination. . . .
    The path we have chosen for the present is this been achieved?
    full of hazards, as all paths are; but it is the
    one most consistent with our character and
    courage as a nation and our commitments
    around the world. The cost of freedom is
    always high-but Americans have always paid
    it. And one path we shall never choose, and
    that is the path of surrender or submission.
    Our goal is not the victory of might but the
    vindication of right-not peace at the expense
    of freedom, but both peace and freedom, here
    in this Hemisphere and, we hope, around the
    world. God willing, that goal will be achieved.

    from John Kennedy, U.S., Department of State, Bulletin, Volume XLVII, No. 1220 (November
    12,1962),715-720. (Address delivered from the White House by T.V. and radio on October 22, 1962.)
    Reprinted in David L. Larson, ed., The "Cuban Crisis" of 1962 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1963),41-46

    Directions: Answer the following questions using Herbert Block’s political cartoon

    Herbert Block drew this political cartoon shortly after the Cuban missile crisis, the most serious U.S.-Soviet
    confrontation. Notice that, unlike many American politicians and journalists who were severely critical of the Soviet
    leader at the time, Block depicts Nikita Khrushchev as an equal of President Kennedy in struggling to contain nuclear
    war.

    "Let's Get a Lock for This Thing"


    from Herblock: A Cartoonist's Life (Lisa Drew
    Books/Macmillan, 1993).

    1. How did Herbert Block show that both


    Kennedy and Khrushchev struggling to contain
    nuclear war?

    2. What is the significance (importance) of


    nuclear war’s hands?

    25

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