A veteran correspondent’s memoir reveals the humanity and misjudgment of the Soviet leader who sparked the Cuban Missile ...

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/jfk-red-threat/ Kennedy believed his first diplomatic meeting with Nikita Khrushchev would be a lesson in ...

Khrushchev and Kennedy on a Collision Course" (BookBaby), veteran journalist Marvin Kalb writes about the 1963 Cold War summit between President John F. Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita ...

PC 94 Ensign John F. Kennedy ... When Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev threatened to take West Berlin in 1961, Kennedy promised a military response, and the Russians backed down.

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