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  1. Kennedy Hears from a Worried Soviet Premier
    date October 26, 1962 to October 27, 1962map Dist Columbia, District of Columbiatags War, Foreign Politics, Diplomacy/International

    Between 6:00 and 9:00 PM on the night of Friday October 26, 1962, the tenth day of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the members of President John F. Kennedy’s Executive Committee of the National Security (ExCom) received sections of a long, emotional private message from Soviet Union Premier Nikita Khrushchev.  Khrushchev revealed the underlying logic of the Cuban Missile Crisis when he wrote, “I see,...