#CubanMissileCrisis

People (4)

• Nikita Khrushchev Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971) led the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, delivering the 1956 Secret Speech, authorizing the Berlin Wall, and navigating the Cuban Missile Crisis before his 1964 removal.
• Robert A. Lovett Brown Brothers Harriman partner who served as Secretary of Defense from 1951 to 1953, sat on the board that reviewed CIA covert action in 1956, and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1963.
• Robert Kennedy Robert F. Kennedy was chief counsel of the McClellan Committee, Attorney General under John F. Kennedy, and a United States senator and presidential candidate shot in Los Angeles in 1968.
• William P. Bundy William P. Bundy, son-in-law of Dean Acheson, served in the CIA's Office of National Estimates and the Pentagon, then as Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs from 1964 to 1969.