Movietone newsreel on Cuban Missile Crisis

Title

Movietone newsreel on Cuban Missile Crisis

Genre

News report

TX Date

Unknown

Year of production

1980

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Duration

00:01:45

Description

Archive Movietone newsreel on the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, presented by Leslie Mitchell. He describes how Cuban exiles attempted a sabotage mission in Cuba in 1962 amid concern that Fidel Castro had become a pawn of the Soviet Union by allowing Soviet missiles to be placed there.

Contributors

Leslie Mitchell; Movietone News

Keywords

USA; Cuba; USSR; International relations; Nuclear weapons; Cold War; Fidel Castro; Cuban Missile Crisis (1962); Communism; Missiles; John F. Kennedy; Communists; Leslie Mitchell

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