SOVIETS GIVE ORDER TO DISMANTLE NUKES IN CUBA & RETURN THEM TO THE USSR
Washington, D.C. (JFK+50) On October 28, 1962, Radio Moscow transmitted a message from Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev announcing the decision which would end the Cuban Missile Crisis. The announcement was made by Yuri Levitan who said:
"In order to eliminate...the conflict which endangers the cause of peace...the Soviet government...has given a new order to dismantle the weapons (in Cuba)...and to crate and return them to the Soviet Union."
Premier Khrushchev said later in the message that he was assured by President John F. Kennedy's letter of October 27, 1962, that the United States would not invade Cuba. The message concluded...
"We are confident that reason will triumph, that war will not be unleashed and peace and the security of the peoples will be insured."
The President said to Dave Powers...
"I feel like a new man now. Do you realize we had an air strike all arranged? Thank God, it's all over."
SOURCES
"'Let Us Begin Anew,' An Oral History of the Kennedy Presidency," by Gerald S. and Deborah H. Strober, Harper and Collins Publishers, New York, 1993.
"One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro On the Brink of Nuclear War," by Michael Dobbs, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2008.
Washington, D.C. (JFK+50) On October 28, 1962, Radio Moscow transmitted a message from Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev announcing the decision which would end the Cuban Missile Crisis. The announcement was made by Yuri Levitan who said:
"In order to eliminate...the conflict which endangers the cause of peace...the Soviet government...has given a new order to dismantle the weapons (in Cuba)...and to crate and return them to the Soviet Union."
Premier Khrushchev said later in the message that he was assured by President John F. Kennedy's letter of October 27, 1962, that the United States would not invade Cuba. The message concluded...
"We are confident that reason will triumph, that war will not be unleashed and peace and the security of the peoples will be insured."
The President said to Dave Powers...
"I feel like a new man now. Do you realize we had an air strike all arranged? Thank God, it's all over."
SOURCES
"'Let Us Begin Anew,' An Oral History of the Kennedy Presidency," by Gerald S. and Deborah H. Strober, Harper and Collins Publishers, New York, 1993.
"One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro On the Brink of Nuclear War," by Michael Dobbs, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2008.
