Fact #93124

US President John F. Kennedy is advised that the CIA has obtained photographic evidence of a build up, by Russia, of medium range ballistic missiles on the island of Cuba. Kennedy convenes a meeting of the nine members of the National Security Council and five other key advisers. The decisions taken by the Council will initiate the Cuban Missile Crisis. Until the resolution of the crisis two weeks later, when Russia agrees to remove its missiles from Cuba, the world will live in fear of imminent nuclear war. The 1964 Phil Ochs song Talking Cuban Crisis depicts the responses of one ordinary American to the crisis.