Jfk's Address To The Cuban Missile Crisis

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One particular source that shows the significance of JFK to the Cuban Missile Crisis is the speech address he released to the public. The speech was made by John F. Kennedy himself on the 22 of October 1962. The speech was addressing the issue that the Soviets have set-up offensive missile sites on the island of Cuba for the purpose of providing nuclear strikes against perhaps the whole of the Western Hemisphere. This was addressed to the people of the United States. He addressed this because the people of America needed to know about the decisions that the US government wre going to use. Kennedy states that “In the defence of our own security and of the entire Western Hemisphere… a strict quarantine on all offensive military equipment under