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IMAGO International History, Archive, Cold War, Cuban Missile Crisis 1962, US President John F. Kennedy

Feb 5, 2026

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  • U.S. President John F. Kennedy (right) meeting with Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union Andrei Gromyko (seated to the left of Kennedy), Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union, Vladimir S. Semenov (seated far left) and Soviet Ambassador to the U.S., Anatoliy Fedorovich Dobrynin, (seated 2nd left), Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C., USA, Cecil Stoughton, White House Photographs, October 18, 1962 Copyright: xCircaxImagesx ghi-circa13774
  • June 30, 2025, Washington, Dc, USA: U.S. President John F. Kennedy (back view) speaking with (L-R) Special Assistant to the President for National Security McGeorge Bundy, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Paul Nitze, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Maxwell D. Taylor, and Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara in the West Wing Colonnade outside the Oval Office during meeting with the Executive Committee of the National Security Council that day regarding the crisis in Cuba, White House, Washington, D.C., USA, Cecil W. Stoughton, White House Photographs, October 29, 1962 Washington USA - ZUMAg145 20250630_zap_g145_036 Copyright: xJTxVintagex
  • June 30, 2025, Washington, Dc, USA: Executive Committee of the National Security Council (Clockwise from top right side of table: Under Secretary of State George Ball, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, U.S. President John F. Kennedy, Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, Deputy Secretary of Defense Roswell Gilpatric, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Maxwell D. Taylor, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Paul Nitze, Acting Director of the United States Information Agency Donald Wilson, Special Counsel to the President Theodore C. Sorensen, Special Assistant to the President for National Security McGeorge Bundy (mostly hidden), Secretary of the Treasury C. Douglas Dillon, Vice President Lyndon B. John - ZUMAg145 20250630_zap_g145_035 Copyright: xJTxVintagex
  • June 30, 2025, Washington, Dc, USA: U.S. President John F. Kennedy with U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara (center) and Deputy Secretary of Defense Roswell Gilpatric (right) in the cabinet room during meeting wit the Executive Committee of the National Security Council regarding the crisis in Cuba, White House, Washington, D.C., USA, Cecil W. Stoughton, White House Photographs, October 29, 1962 Washington USA - ZUMAg145 20250630_zap_g145_038 Copyright: xJTxVintagex
  • June 30, 2025, Washington, Dc, USA: Executive Committee of the National Security Council (clockwise from bottom left): Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Maxwell D. Taylor, Secretary of the Treasury C. Douglas Dillon, U.S. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, former U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union Llewellyn Thompson, Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency William C. Foster, Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, and Deputy Secretary of Defense Roswell Gilpatric in the cabinet room during meeting with U.S. President John F. Kennedy regarding the crisis in Cuba, White House, Washington, D.C., USA, Cecil W. Stoughton, White House Photographs, October 29, 1962 Washington USA - ZUMAg145 20250630_zap_g145_037 Copyright: xJTxVintagex
  • June 30, 2025, Washington, Dc, USA: U.S. President John F. Kennedy signing the Interdiction of the Delivery of Offensive Weapons to Cuba during Cuban Missile Crisis, Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C., USA, Cecil W. Stoughton, White House Photographs, October 23, 1962 Washington USA - ZUMAg145 20250630_zap_g145_031 Copyright: xJTxVintagex
  • June 30, 2025, Washington, Dc, USA: Executive Committee of the National Security Council (Clockwise from top right side of table: Under Secretary of State George Ball, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, U.S. President John F. Kennedy, Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, Deputy Secretary of Defense Roswell Gilpatric, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Maxwell D. Taylor, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Paul Nitze, Acting Director of the United States Information Agency Donald Wilson, Special Counsel to the President Theodore C. Sorensen, Special Assistant to the President for National Security McGeorge Bundy (mostly hidden), Secretary of the Treasury C. Douglas Dillon, Vice President Lyndon B. John - ZUMAg145 20250630_zap_g145_015 Copyright: xJTxVintagex
  • U.S. President John F. Kennedy with U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara (center) and Deputy Secretary of Defense Roswell Gilpatric (right) in the cabinet room during meeting wit the Executive Committee of the National Security Council regarding the crisis in Cuba, White House, Washington, D.C., USA, Cecil W. Stoughton, White House Photographs, October 29, 1962 Copyright: xCircaxImagesx ghi-circa13523
  • Executive Committee of the National Security Council (clockwise from bottom left): Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Maxwell D. Taylor, Secretary of the Treasury C. Douglas Dillon, U.S. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, former U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union Llewellyn Thompson, Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency William C. Foster, Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, and Deputy Secretary of Defense Roswell Gilpatric in the cabinet room during meeting with U.S. President John F. Kennedy regarding the crisis in Cuba, White House, Washington, D.C., USA, Cecil W. Stoughton, White House Photographs, October 29, 1962 Copyright: xCircaxImagesx ghi-circa13522
  • U.S. President John F. Kennedy (back view) speaking with (L-R) Special Assistant to the President for National Security McGeorge Bundy, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Paul Nitze, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Maxwell D. Taylor, and Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara in the West Wing Colonnade outside the Oval Office during meeting with the Executive Committee of the National Security Council that day regarding the crisis in Cuba, White House, Washington, D.C., USA, Cecil W. Stoughton, White House Photographs, October 29, 1962 Copyright: xCircaxImagesx ghi-circa13521
  • Executive Committee of the National Security Council (Clockwise from top right side of table: Under Secretary of State George Ball, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, U.S. President John F. Kennedy, Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, Deputy Secretary of Defense Roswell Gilpatric, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Maxwell D. Taylor, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Paul Nitze, Acting Director of the United States Information Agency Donald Wilson, Special Counsel to the President Theodore C. Sorensen, Special Assistant to the President for National Security McGeorge Bundy (mostly hidden), Secretary of the Treasury C. Douglas Dillon, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson (mostly hidden), Attorney Genera Copyright: xCircaxImagesx ghi-circa13520
  • U.S. President John F. Kennedy signing the Interdiction of the Delivery of Offensive Weapons to Cuba during Cuban Missile Crisis, Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C., USA, Cecil W. Stoughton, White House Photographs, October 23, 1962 Copyright: xCircaxImagesx ghi-circa13503
  • White House Press Secretary, Pierre Salinger, Announcing to Reporters that U.S. President John Kennedy will make National Television Report Regarding Cuban Missile Crisis, October 22, 1962 Copyright: xABxArchivex jtv005190
  • 800 women strikers for peace on 47th Street near the UN Building in New York, 1962 (b w photo) 2920916 800 women strikers for peace on 47th Street near the UN Building in New York, 1962 (b w photo) ; (add.info.: Women Strike for Peace (later known as Women for Peace) was founded in 1961 to protest the use of nuclear testing. From there they expanded to advocate nuclear disarmament and promoting peace. Photographed by Phil Stanziola. ). Copyright: xBridgemanxImagesx 2920916
  • US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy Signing Declaration of Naval Blockade of Cuba, October 29, 1962 (b w photo) 1666805 US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy Signing Declaration of Naval Blockade of Cuba, October 29, 1962 (b w photo); (add.info.: President John F. Kennedy announces to the American people that he has ordered a blockade of Cuba in response to the discovery that Soviet missiles were being installed on the island. In his televised speech, he condemned Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev for the clandestine, reckless and provocative threat to world peace? and warned that the United States was fully prepared to retaliate should the missiles be launched.). Copyright: xBridgemanxImagesx 1666805
  • Anatoly F. Dobrynin and Andrei Gromyko Soviet ambassador to the US, Anatoly F. Dobrynin and Soviet foreign minister Andrei Gromyko talking with President Kennedy who is seated in rocking chair, at the White House, Washington, D.C. during the Cuban missile crisis. October 18, 1962 Copyright: xPhoto12 AnnxRonanxPicturexLibraryx ARP18A09229
  • October 29, 1962 - Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America - Meeting of the Executive Committee of the National Security Council to discuss the Cuban Missile Crisis in the Cabinet Room at the in Washington, DC on October 29, 1962. Left to right: United States President John F. Kennedy, US Secretary of State Dean Rusk, US Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara. .Credit: via CNP Washington United States of America - ZUMAs152 19621029_zaa_s152_001
  • Left to right, Soviet ambassador to the USA, Anatoly F. Dobrynin and Soviet foreign minister Andrei Gromyko, talking with President john F Kennedy, who is seated in rocking chair, at the White House, Washington, D.C. 1962 Oct. 18. during the Cuban Missile Crisis WHA !ACHTUNG AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! Copyright: WHA UnitedArchivesWHA_039_0004
  • Left to right, Soviet ambassador to the USA, Anatoly F. Dobrynin and Soviet foreign minister Andrei Gromyko after meeting with President john F Kennedy at the White House, Washington, D.C. 1962 Oct. 18. during the Cuban Missile Crisis WHA !ACHTUNG AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! Copyright: WHA UnitedArchivesWHA_039_0003