MISSILE CRISIS BROUGHT U.S., SOVIETS TO THE BRINK

Sixty years ago, more than 10,000 county-based Marines began secretly moving out on President Kennedy's alert to the threat of Soviet missiles in Cuba. The Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 was the closest the United States and the Soviet Union came to a nuclear conf lict during the Cold War.

In a nationally televised address on Oct. 22, 1962, President John F. Kennedy demanded the removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba and imposed a naval blockade to prevent additional weapons from reaching the island.

On Oct. 28, the USSR announced it would remove and dismantle the weapons in question. In return, the U.S. removed Jupiter missiles from Turkey.

Local Marines started arriving back home Dec. 9.

From The Evening Tribune, Tuesday, Oct. 23, 1962: