The air-conditioning system was broken, and the ship couldn't surface
YOU MAY BE CAPTAIN OF THIS SHIP, BUT I AM COMMANDER OF THIS
to give Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev more time to consider the U.S. action by
We could pay either the captain or the owner of the ship whatever he asks to defect
After consultation with them, Kennedy ordered a naval blockade on October 22
Before it was answered, “the freighter came to a stop . . . backed
They were ordered by the Soviet naval command to change course
President Kennedy faced a foe more relentless than Khrushchev, just across the ... “Here was a president who had no military experience at all, sort of a patrol- boat skipper in
Was the Russian Premier Khrushchev testing the young Kennedy? Kennedy made a pivotal decision by ordering the U.S. Navy to create a blockade around
A record of Khrushchev's decision is available in the minutes of a Soviet