Cuban Crisis 1962

Shows Premier Fidel Castro of Cuba making his way through crowds in the streets of Havana, Cuba. Shows Fidel Castro on platform before a bank of microphones speaking and making wild gestures. Cheering people. Excellent image of Castro with a smiling Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev of Russia in New York. Picture of Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko with President John F. Kennedy in the White House. LS, U.S. photo reconnaissance jet aircraft taking off and aerial view of jet aircraft climbing to high altitude. U.S. Air Force technicians developing aerial photographs. Shows Air Force aerial imagery specialist with magnifier glass looking at aerial photographs of missile sites in Cuba. Congressmen and high government officials arriving at White House. President John F. Kennedy addressing the nation. Night shot of a lighted U.S. Capitol Building and lighted U.S. Government buildings depicting the seriousness and urgency of the Cuban Missile crisis in 1962. Signs identifying offices in a government building read " Secretary of The Air Force", "U.S. Air Force Chief Of Staff", "Chief of Naval Operations", Office of The Joint Chiefs of Staff", and "Secretary of Defense". U.S. Air Force base, U.S. Marines exiting plane at Leeward Point Field, Naval Air Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Shows parked U.S. Air Force transport plane with Leeward Point Field aircraft hangar in BG. U.S. Air Force mission briefing. Brief aerial view of Russian submarine B-59?. Shows U.S. Air Force crewmen arming U.S. aircraft with bombs and rockets, U.S. Air Force fighter planes and B-47 Stratojet Bomber taking off. Shows F-106A Delta Dart Interceptor fighter aircraft on flight line at Volk Field Wisconsin. Lockheed EC-121 Warning Star radar surveillance aircraft in flight.