0.32

Daily Mail
29 October 1962

1.15

Daily Telegraph
24 October 1962

1.40

New York Herald Tribune
24 October 1962

... that a series of offensive missile sites is now in preparation in Cuba.

2.30

Daily Telegraph
25 October 1962

3.08

New York Times
23 October 1962

U.S. IMPOSES ARMS BLOCKADE ON CUBA ON FINDING OFFENSIVE-MISSILE SITES

3.15

New York Herald Tribune
23 October 1962

President Kennedy, in a momentous decision that may be interpreted as a hostile act by the Soviet Union, last night ordered a blockade of offensive weapons bound for Cuba.

With American warships already steaming eastward into the Atlantic to meet oncoming Soviet vessels and to enforce the blockade, East and West were suddenly confronted with perhaps the direst crisis of the nuclear age.

3.55

New York Herald Tribune
24 October 1962

The People of the United States must and will unite behind the President in the course which Soviet aggression has made inevitable ... Americans can trust that reason will prevail in Moscow. But unless and until it does, Cuba must be quarantined against a plague more deadly than any which has yet affected mankind: the plague of nuclear war.

4.20

New York Times
28 October 1962

4.30

New York Herald Tribune
28 October 1962

THE DUEL BETWEEN U.S. AND RUSSIA

4.50

New York Times
28 October 1962

FACTORS FOR THE WAR

The principal danger of the present crisis is that major challenge has been offered and accepted. Neither side can back down without defeat.

FACTORS AGAINST THE WAR

Perhaps one of the most important is the awareness of both sides of what nuclear war might mean.

5.10

New York Herald Tribune
24 October 1962

ZERO HOUR - 10 A.M.

A WORLD IN SUSPENSE

5.30

Daily Mail
26 October 1962

PREMIER BACKS U.S. ON CUBA

5.40

Daily Mail
24 October 1962

5.54

Daily Telegraph
24 October 1962

REACTIONS TO CUBA

In what way it might be asked, do nuclear missile bases in Cuba constitute as extra threat to America, which is already within range of Russian rockets?

The Russians indeed have long tolerated American nuclear bases in Turkey, which is as close to her as Cuba is to America ...

6.20

Daily Mail
15 October 1962

The Americans have now buried themselves in a nightmare called Communist Aggression which is destroying them and us, and our children; which is imposing a pattern of futile fear over millions of people who have no reason to share it ...

6.35

Daily Mirror
25 October 1962

FIGHTING NEAR U.S. EMBASSY

No War Over Cuba, says the placard in the picture.

6.44

Daily Mail
25 October 1962

THE YOUNG ONES IN REVOLT

The two K's - Kennedy and Khrushchev - will get a cable from Britain's young ones in revolt today.

The sender: Robin Mariner, 18-year-old head boy at Midhurst, Sussex, grammar school, and leader of a strike by 40 of the school's sixth formers yesterday.

6.55

The Guardian
25 October 1962

SIXTH FORM STARTS CUBA STRIKE

The strikers told their headmaster, Mr Norman Lucas, after morning assembly that they would not attend classes for two days.

7.07

Daily Mirror
29 October 1962

DAISY THE WARRIOR

Her name is Daisy Martinez - pretty and sixteen years old. She poses against a tropical background ... Daisy's dress is battle dress. Her accessories are the cartridges in her belt. And in a small way she is part of the crisis that troubles the world.

For Daisy is one of Cuban Premier Fidel Castro's soldiers.

7.36

Bohemia
October 1962

7.47

Pravda
24 October 1962

THE PEOPLE PROTEST AGAINST THE AGGRESSIVE ACTIONS OF AMERICAN IMPERIALISTS

8.10

Daily Mail
29 October 1962

8.30

Daily Mail
29 October 1962

Khrushchev pulls out, Kennedy applauds.

The Cuban missile crisis is over. Mr Khrushchev has ordered all Soviet missile bases to be dismantled and shipped back to Russia.

President Kennedy swiftly welcomed the surprise Kremlin move as a statesmanlike decision and an important and constructive contribution to peace.