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Bay of Pigs Invasion

Nikita Khrushchev's Telegram To President Kennedy

Monday Apr 17, 1961 at 02:00:00 PM
Washington D.C., U.S.

At 14:00, President Kennedy received a telegram from Nikita Khrushchev in Moscow, stating the Russians would not allow the US to enter Cuba, and implied swift nuclear retribution to the United States heartland if their warnings were not heeded.


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