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To the brink : JFK and the Cuban missile crisis / by Stacey Bredhoff ; with a message from David S. Ferriero

Catalog Data

Author:
Bredhoff, Stacey 1955-  Search this
Ferriero, David S  Search this
Subject:
Kennedy, John F (John Fitzgerald) 1917-1963  Search this
Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich 1894-1971  Search this
National Archives Building (Washington, D.C.)  Search this
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum  Search this
Physical description:
v, [1], 90 p. : ill., maps, ports., facsims. ; 26 cm
Type:
Books
Exhibitions
Place:
Cuba
Date:
2012
C2012
Notes:
"This book is based on the exhibition "To the Brink: JFK and the Cuban Missile Crisis," presented in the Lawrence F. O'Brien Gallery at the National Archives Building, Washington, DC, from October 12, 2012, through February 3, 2013, and at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston, Massachusetts, from April 12, 2013, through November 11, 2013." -- T.p. verso.
Summary:
The exhibition presents original documents and artifacts, along with transcripts from secretly recorded White House tapes giving a look back, 50 years later, at the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Topic:
Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962  Search this
Military bases, Soviet  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1024191