Frontiers and Quagmires

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Kennedy's Inaugural Address

Memorandum Prepared in the Central Intelligence Agency, Washington, January 19, 1961. (Planning an invasion of Cuba)

Memorandum From the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Thomas Mann) to Secretary of State Rusk, February 15, 1961. (Arguing against an invasion of Cuba)

Letter From President Kennedy to Chairman Khrushchev, April 18, 1961

USA and USSR: Exchange of Notes on the Berlin Wall, August 17-18, 1961

Khrushchev’s Secret Speech on the Berlin Crisis, August 1961

Rusk-McNamara Report to Kennedy on Vietnam, Nov. 11, 1961

Transcript of a Meeting at the White House Regarding Missile Sites In Cuba, Oct. 16, 1962

Off the Record Meeting on Cuba, Oct. 16, 1962, 6:30-7:55 p.m.

President Kennedy's Speech Announcing the "Quarantine" Against Cuba, Oct. 22, 1962

Letter From Chairman Khrushchev to President Kennedy, Oct. 24, 1962

Memorandum From Attorney General Robert Kennedy to President Kennedy about his meeting with Soviet Ambassador Dobrynin, October 24, 1962

Telegram From the Embassy in the Soviet Union to the Department of State, October 26, 1962 (Khrushchev Asks for a U.S. No-Invasion Pledge) 

Message From Chairman Khrushchev to President Kennedy (the Second Letter), Oct. 27, 1962

Letter to Fidel Castro from Nikita Khrushchev Advising Him to Remain Firm against US Aggression, October 28, 1962

Message From Chairman Khrushchev to President Kennedy, October 28, 1962

Port Huron Statement

Address by President Kennedy at The American University, Washington, D.C., "Towards a Strategy of Peace," June 10, 1963

President Kennedy's Television Interviews on Vietnam, Sept. 2 and 9, 1963