WW III almost happened?
18 Oct 2012 1:01 AM GMT
Former US President John F Kennedy had prepared to announce a full scale invasion of Cuba that may have led to World War III, if the Cuban Missile Crisis worsened, according to newly released Cold War documents.
JFK would have delivered the speech if Soviet ships carrying strategic nuclear missiles had reached Cuba in October 1962, papers released from Robert F Kennedy’s personal files have revealed.
JFK’s planned speech begins with the words ‘My fellow Americans, with a heavy heart, and in necessary fulfilment of my oath of office, I have ordered, and the United States Air Force has now carried out, military operations with conventional weapons only, to remove a major nuclear weapons build-up from the soil of Cuba.’
This week marks the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
JFK would have delivered the speech if Soviet ships carrying strategic nuclear missiles had reached Cuba in October 1962, papers released from Robert F Kennedy’s personal files have revealed.
JFK’s planned speech begins with the words ‘My fellow Americans, with a heavy heart, and in necessary fulfilment of my oath of office, I have ordered, and the United States Air Force has now carried out, military operations with conventional weapons only, to remove a major nuclear weapons build-up from the soil of Cuba.’
This week marks the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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