Fifty years on from the Cuban missile crisis, Sarah Rainsford went on a hunt for traces of the event that brought the world to the brink of nuclear wa...
On October 22, 1962, US President John F. Kennedy announced that the Soviet Union had begun deploying nuclear missiles to Cuba. The Cuban Missile Cris...
The National Archives has gathered documents and secret White House recordings for a new exhibit called, "To the Brink: JFK and the Cuban Missile Cris...
(SOUNDBITE) (English) UNITED STATES PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY SAYING: "Within the past week, unmistakable evidence has established the fact that a ser...
Watch a clip from the film "Ginger and Rosa," a look at the lives of two teenage girls growing up in 1960s London, and the pivotal event the comes to ...
JFK's nephew Christopher Kennedy Lawford talks about his experience being shoulder to shoulder with Fidel Castro during a screening of a movie about t...
Washington Post reporter Michael Dobbs describes the moment the world came closer than ever before to nuclear destruction. He draws modern-day lessons...
Elle Fanning, Christina Hendricks, Alice Englert, Oliver Platt and Annette Bening star in the movie drama "Ginger and Rosa". A look at the lives of tw...