Cuban Missile Crisis 1962

Cold War tensions are ratcheted up to DEFCON 2 and 3 as the U.S., using aerial reconnaissance, have photographic proof that the Soviet Union is preparing to emplace medium-ranged nuclear missiles in Cuba Low aerial view of hugh crowd of people in the streets, people on top of building looking down at crowd. 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, cut to crowd of cheering people. Excellent image of Castro with a smiling Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev of Russia in New York. Aerial views of Russian cargo ships at sea. CU images of Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev. Newspaper 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. CU of photographs showing and identifying types of Russian missile sites in Cuba. MLS of the White House. Congressmen and high government officials arriving at White House. Brief image of Vice President Johnson walking fast. Newspaper article headline reads " Something's Brewing In Capital". Newspaper The Evening Star headline reads " Kennedy Will Speak Tonight: Matter of Highest Urgency". The News headline reads "Highest National Urgency, JFK Speaks At 7". CU of President John F. Kennedy addressing the nation (no audio). Shows animated map that locates Cuba in relation to Florida. 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". Fast panning view of U.S. Air Force base. Shows 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. Footage of large wall map and Air Force Officer pointing with long pointer as a movie camera rolls. Rear view of two Military Officers with large wall map in BG, one Officer answers telephone. Shows U.S. Air Force pilots and crew members in mission briefing room, cut to Air Force Officer giving mission briefing. Brief aerial view of Russian submarine B-59?. Shows U.S. Air Force crewmen arming U.S. aircraft with bombs and rockets, CU of bomb bay of aircraft. U.S. Air Force fighter planes and B-47 Stratojet Bomber taking off. Shows plane landing with aircraft drogue drag parachute deployed. Shows F-106A Delta Dart Interceptor fighter aircraft on flight line at Volk Field Wisconsin. CU sign reads "Headquarters Air Defense Command". Air-to-air view of Lockheed EC-121 Warning Star radar surveillance aircraft in flight. Sign reads " Headquarters Montgomery Air Defense Sector", scenes of personnel at their stations inside building. Signs reads "Headquarters Tactical Air Command", pan to view of building.