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Kennedy Announces Naval Blockade Of Cuba


Kennedy Announces Naval Blockade Of Cuba
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In a televised speech on October 22, 1962, U.S. President John F. Kennedy said that the United States had discovered the development of missile sites on Cuba intended to provide "a nuclear strike capability against the Western hemisphere," and announced that he had ordered a naval blockade of the island.

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