RESOURCES
Student Resources for Use Before and After Viewing
- Primary Source Worksheets
- Chart: Multiple Perspectives on the Cuban Missile Crisis Worksheets
- Map of Cuba (maps)
- ExComm Transcripts from October 18th
or October 27th Transcripts
- Select Photos of Cuban Missile Crisis
(Photos)
- Reconnaissance Photographs of Soviet missiles in Cuba
(Photos)
- Chronology of the Cuban Missile Crisis
(Chronology)
- Anatomy of a Controversy: Anatoly F. Dobrynin's Meeting with Robert
Kennedy, Saturday October 27, 1962 by Jim Hershberg (7 documents)
- Anatoly Dobrynin's Cable to the Soviet Foreign Ministry, 27 October 1962 (Telegram)
- Dean Rusk: [of Meeting between Robert Kennedy and Anatoly
F. Dobrynin on 27 October 1962]
(Document)
- Accounts of Former U.S. Officials: McGeorge Bundy: [of
Meeting between Robert Kennedy and Anatoly F. Dobrynin on 27
October 1962] (Accounts)
- Sorensen's "Confession": [on Meeting between Robert
Kennedy and Anatoly F. Dobrynin on 27 October 1962]
(Confession)
- Khrushchev's Description [of Meeting between Robert
Kennedy and Anatoly F. Dobrynin on 27 October 1962]
(Description)
- Robert Kennedy's (edited) Description [of meeting with
Anatoly F. Dobrynin on October 27 1962]
(Description)
- Robert F. Kennedy, Memorandum for Dean Rusk on Meeting with
Anatoly F. Dobrynin on 27 October 1962
(Memorandum)
- Anatoly Dobrynin's Cable to the Soviet Foreign Ministry, 27 October 1962 (Telegram)
- October 17, letter to JFK from Stevenson (Letter)
- President Kennedy's TV Address (Address)
- Khrushchev's Letter to Kennedy
(Letter)
- Mikoyan-Casto Talks, November 4-5, 1962: Cuban Version
(Entire Document)
- Mikoyan-Casto Talks, November 4-5, 1962: Soviet Version
(Entire Document)
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