1. Nancy McCoy Director of Education and Public Programs John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum Perspectives on: The October Crisis, The Caribbean Crisis, The Cuban Missile Crisis

2. Cover of TIME Magazine, September 15, 1961.

4. Map of Cuba, October 1962.

5. Top Secret Missile Range Map of North America

6. President Kennedy signs proclamation for naval quarantine of Cuba, 23 October 1962.

7. Minutes from meeting of the Presidium, October 22, 1962.

8. President Kennedy’s doodles, October 25, 1962

9. Letter from Fidel Castro to Soviet Premier Khrushchev, 26 October 1962.

10. Copy of outgoing ciphered telegram no. 20076, October 27, 1962.

11. Letter from Soviet Premier Khrushchev to President Kennedy, October 27, 1962.

13. In short, both the United States and its allies, and the Soviet Union and its allies, have a mutually deep interest in a just and genuine peace and in halting the arms race. Agreements to this end are in the interests of the Soviet Union as well as ours - and even the most hostile nations can be relied upon to accept and keep those treaty obligations, and only those treaty obligations, which are in their own interest. So, let us not be blind to our differences - but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved. And if we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. For, in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And, we are all mortal. John F. Kennedy Commencement Address at American University, June 10, 1963

14. "The essence of ultimate decision remains impenetrable to the observer, often indeed to the decider himself. There will always be the dark and tangled stretches in the decision making process, mysterious even to those who may be most intimately involved." John F. Kennedy