Kennedy's deal with Khrushchev cut this lifeline. Think about it: here's the U.S. Coast Guard and Border patrol working 'round the clock arresting Hispanics in the U.S. who are desperate to return ...

Joe Biden was leaving a college class. The Soviet ambassador was in a dentist’s chair. Fidel Castro was at lunch. Kennedy’s death 60 years ago shocked them all.

Fidel Castro shares at least one belief with the majority of Americans: He is convinced that the assassination of President John F. Kennedy was not the work of a lone gunman, but rather the ...

In fact, according to Khrushchev’s own son Sergei, his father prepared to yank the missiles before any “bullying” by Kennedy. “What!?” Khrushchev gasped on Oct. 28 th 1962, as recalled ...

Only later did we learn that Fidel Castro, whom Khrushchev viewed as a hothead, wanted the Soviets to launch a tactical nuke at the United States.

The contours of World War III are visible in numerous conflicts. The president of the United States is not ready.

Michael Dobbs, author of One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the brink of nuclear war, has this to say of that critical Cold War confrontation.

Fidel Castro, once more in top form, had an explanation for everything. Then he questioned me once more on Kennedy, and each time I eulogized the intellectual qualities of the assassinated ...

Castro made a covert agreement in July 1962 with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev to host Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba.

After the heady experience came headachy doubts and morning-after questions. Hardly had Nikita Khrushchev promised to back away from his Cuba missiles adventure than the Kennedy Administration ...

President John F. Kennedy and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev head to their first meeting on June 3, 1961, at the start of the East-West talks in Vienna, the year before the Cuban missile crisis.