Cuban Missile Crisis. Film archive

Description

This programme features eleven extracts from various film archive sources on the Cuban Missile Crisis, covering three themes: The Crisis Builds, Kennedy in Action and Winners or Losers. All the extracts are selected by Ben Walsh. There are clips from the following films: One Week in October a Defence Department documentary, 1964 Duck and Cover a public information film from 1951Kennedy's TV address to the nation, October 22 1962 Cuban Crisis newsreel from 1962 Blockade Lifted newsreel from 1962.

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14 min

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Date of Publication

2005

Database

Alexander Street

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