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Banner headlines of Britain's daily newspapers Oct. 23 announcing President Kennedy's blockade of Cuba. U.S. planes and ships, armed with orders to shoot if necessary, began taking up positions in the Caribbean Oct. 22 to cut off shipments of Communist offensive weapons to Cuba. The action aw ordered by President Kennedy who soberly told the nation in a national television address that Soviet missiles and other weapons had turned Cuba into an armed camp capable of hurling destruction into the heart of America.

London Headlines
Banner headlines of Britain's daily newspapers Oct. 23 announcing President Kennedy's blockade of Cuba. U.S. planes and ships, armed with orders to shoot if necessary, began taking up positions in the Caribbean Oct. 22 to cut off shipments of Communist offensive weapons to Cuba. The action aw ordered by President Kennedy who soberly told the nation in a national television address that Soviet missiles and other weapons had turned Cuba into an armed camp capable of hurling destruction into the heart of America.
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