JFK & The Cuban Crisis - 1962 | Movietone Moments | 7 Feb 20

On this day in 1962 US President JFK began the blockade of Cuba by banning all Cuban imports and exports. Here’s a British Movietone report on the situation from a little later that year. President Kennedy’s urgency in launching his blockade underlined a determination to prevent - at almost any cost - Cuba’s missile build-up. British experts now agree that these pictures show an extensive consolidation, and the President is in no doubt of its purpose. World reaction to the Russian build-up and the Presid