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Cuban Missile Crisis

Senator Kenneth Keating warning of a missile base in Cuba

Friday Aug 31, 1962
U.S

On August 31, Senator Kenneth Keating (R-New York) warned on the Senate floor that the Soviet Union was "in all probability" constructing a missile base in Cuba. He charged the Kennedy administration with covering up a major threat to the US, thereby starting the crisis.


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