John Logsdon, a former member of Nasa’s Advisory Council, said that Kennedy suggested it to Khrushchev, but the Soviet leader refused. Now that the U.S. president was dead, the Soviet...

Oct 27, 2017 · Some 2,800 documents released by order of President Trump on Thursday provide some possible insights into how the assassination was viewed inside the Soviet Union.

Oct 27, 2017 · Weeks before President John F. Kennedy's murder, Lee Harvey Oswald, the man who killed him, met with a Soviet assassination agent, newly released documents show.

Jul 13, 2018 · Just six weeks after John F. Kennedy’s botched Bay of Pigs invasion, the U.S. president hurtled head-first into another disaster: his first and only summit with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev.

President Kennedy did not want the Soviet Union and Cuba to know that he had discovered the missiles. He met in secret with his advisors for several days to discuss the problem. After many long and difficult meetings, Kennedy decided to place a …

Jan 9, 2019 · During his short term as President, Kennedy left an imprint on Cold War policies and America’s relationship with the Soviet Union during the height of the globe’s nuclear capabilities. The Bay of Pigs invasion was a failed CIA intervention of Cuba in 1961.

At 8:45 AM on October 16, 1962, National Security Advisor McGeorge Bundy alerted President John F. Kennedy that a major international crisis was at hand. Russia had secretly placed nuclear...

Oct 28, 2017 · Soviet officials were shocked at John F. Kennedy’s assassination, according to a source who was in Russia at the time cited in a document released with the JKF files this week.

Cold War rhetoric dominated the 1960 presidential campaign. Senator John F. Kennedy and Vice President Richard M. Nixon both pledged to strengthen American military forces and promised a tough stance against the Soviet Union and international communism.

Newly released Russian documents from the time of JFK's assassination show that the Soviet government tried to distance itself from Lee Harvey Oswald and feared being tagged with responsibility for the president's murder, concluded a panel …