Jacqueline Kennedy eavesdropped through a White House door during the crisis. Sept. 13, 2011— -- President Kennedy, a student of history and President Lincoln, joked darkly after his triumph ...

For 13 days in October 1962, the world teetered on the edge of nuclear annihilation. This is the true story of the closest we’ve ever come to World War III.

We and other presidential rhetoric scholars consider President John F. Kennedy’s October 22, 1962, Cuban Missile Crisis televised address to the nation, given in response to the placement of ...