Cuban Missile Crisis: 50 years

To the Brink: JFK and the Cuban Missile Crisis http://www.archives.gov/nae/visit/gallery.html
“To the Brink” is a new exhibit at the National Archives that commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis. It displays previously unseen correspondence between the US and the Soviet Union, and secret White House recordings of President John F Kennedy and his advisers. The exhibition will run at the National Archives building until February there is also a website and app for researchers.

Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs has created a website to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 too.  It has source material, analysis, history lesson plans for students including video materials.

Foreign policy magazine has created a site where Michael Dobbs, author of the best-selling One Minute to Midnight, is blogging and tweeting about the crisis.There is also analysis and articles.

Time magazine photo story

LSE Podcast regional persepctives 50 years on – hear academic discussion.

George Washington University site national Security Archive  to commemorate the  anniversary has free access to documents, audioclips and declassified materials.
Finally the John F Kennedy presidential library section also has an interactive display world on the brink with day by day coverage and images of real documents: http://microsites.jfklibrary.org/cmc/