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Kennedy and Khrushchev: 7. Eyeball to eyeball
Season 3 · Episode 7

Kennedy and Khrushchev: 7. Eyeball to eyeball

President Kennedy addresses the nation and imposes a blockade on ships bound for Cuba

The Bomb · BBC World Service

January 12, 202637m 50s

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Show Notes

President Kennedy sends shockwaves around the world with a televised speech to the nation. He imposes a blockade on all ships bound for Cuba - Premier Khrushchev brands it “an act of piracy”. But he knows that hidden in a tiny Cuban port, there’s a Soviet ship laden with unimaginable destructive power. Hosts Nina Khrushcheva and Max Kennedy, relatives of the superpower leaders, tell the personal and political history of the Cuban Missile Crisis.