October of 1962
John F. Kennedy and his Administration have been examining U.S. surveillance and reconnaissance photographs, and finally reached a conclusion today. Making a special address to the nation, he states that the Soviet Union has been running clandestine operations of a military buildup, with missile sites and airfields. President Kennedy states that because of these operations, the Soviet Union is ready to strike the United States and the ideology of democracy. While delineating the response of the United States to this mobilization of weapons in Cuba, Kennedy asserts: "Third: It shall be the policy of this nation to regard any nuclear missile launched from Cuba against any nation in the Western Hemisphere as an attack by the Soviet Union on the United States, requiring a full retaliatory response upon the Soviet Union." President Kennedy later on calls upon Chairman Khrushchev to end these clandestine operations, showing that he is ready to talk peacefully with the Soviet Premier.
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