Photos: Remembering the Cuban missile crisis

Updated 1616 GMT (0016 HKT) October 15, 2012

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People gather in an electronics store to watch American President John F. Kennedy deliver a nationally televised address on the Cuban missile crisis on October 22, 1962.

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Remembering the Cuban missile crisis – People gather in an electronics store to watch American President John F. Kennedy deliver a nationally televised address on the Cuban missile crisis on October 22, 1962.

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Remembering the Cuban missile crisis – President John F. Kennedy meets with aides.

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Onlookers gather on George Smathers Beach in Key West, Florida, to see the U.S. Army's Hawk anti-aircraft missiles positioned there during the Cuban missile crisis.

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Remembering the Cuban missile crisis – Onlookers gather on George Smathers Beach in Key West, Florida, to see the U.S. Army's Hawk anti-aircraft missiles positioned there during the Cuban missile crisis.

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Remembering the Cuban missile crisis – A P2V Neptune U.S. patrol plane flies over a Soviet freighter in 1962.

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Remembering the Cuban missile crisis – President John F. Kennedy signs the order of naval blockade of Cuba on October 24, 1962.

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American tanks are on alert in the Berlin Grunewald, West Germany, on October 25, 1962, as the crisis over the Cuban blockade looms.

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Remembering the Cuban missile crisis – American tanks are on alert in the Berlin Grunewald, West Germany, on October 25, 1962, as the crisis over the Cuban blockade looms.

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President John F. Kennedy leaves St. Stephen Martyr Catholic Church after attending mass on October 29, 1962, in Washington, just a few hours before the Cuban missile crisis began to resolve peacefully.

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Remembering the Cuban missile crisis – President John F. Kennedy leaves St. Stephen Martyr Catholic Church after attending mass on October 29, 1962, in Washington, just a few hours before the Cuban missile crisis began to resolve peacefully.

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American destroyer USS Vesole (DD-878) escorts the Russian freighter Polzunov into international waters, bringing an end to the Cuban missile crisis in October 1962.

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Remembering the Cuban missile crisis – American destroyer USS Vesole (DD-878) escorts the Russian freighter Polzunov into international waters, bringing an end to the Cuban missile crisis in October 1962.

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