...were rapidly installing strategic missile bases in Cuba. On October 22 President Kennedy announced a strict quarantine on all offensive military equipment under shipment to Cuba and called on Premier Khrushchev to remove the missiles and bombers already delivered. At the same...

...were rapidly installing strategic missile bases in Cuba. On October 22 President Kennedy announced a strict quarantine on all offensive military equipment under shipment to Cuba and called on Premier Khrushchev to remove the missiles and bombers already delivered. At the same...

...be informed. On Monday evening, October 22, Kennedy addressed the nation. He was clear and direct: To halt this offensive build-up, a strict quarantine...all offensive military equipment under shipment to (Aiba is being initiated. All ships of anykind bound for Cuba, from whatever nation or port, will,...

...or elimination from the Western Hemisphere." To implement these objectives, the President announced "a strict quarantine on all offensive military equipment under shipment to Cuba," pledged to continue close surveillance of Cuba while preparing US armed forces "for any eventuality,"...

...foe.' "Finally the President described what the United States intended to do about it: 'First: ... a strict quarantine on all offensive military equipment under shipment to Cuba 'Second: continued and increased close surveillance of Cuba. . . . 'Third: it shall be the policy of...

...defense of our own security and of the entire Western Hemisphere, and under the authority entrusted to me by the Constitution as endorsed by the resolution of the Congress, I lave directed that the following initial steps be taken immediately: Firgt: To halt this offensive...

...in the defense of our own security and of the entire Western Hemisphere ... I have directed that ... a strict quarantine on all offensive military equipment under shipment to Cuba . . . [be] initiated." " In the same address, the President directed the taking of two additional steps...

...our own security and that of the entire Western Hemisphere, and under the authority entrusted to me by the Constitution as endorsed by the Resolution...of the Congress, I have directed that the following in! t ial steps be taken immed lately: 15 2) &&CJUL4: I have continued and increased surveillance of...

...are now being uncrated and assembled in Cuba while the necessary air bases are being prepared. ... To halt this offensive build-up a strict quarantine...equipment under shipment to Cuba is being initiated. Should these offensive military preparations continue, thus increasing the threat to the hemisphere,...

...of offensive missile sites as part of a massive Soviet military buildup on Cuba, Kennedy announces "a strict quarantine on all offensive military equipment under shipment to Cuba." He leaves no doubt that the naval blockade will remain in place until the Soviet Union agrees to "the...