6:00 - 6:30 p.m.
President Kennedy holds his forty-fifth news conference
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President Kennedy meets with the President's Science Advisory Committee to discuss nuclear research and development.
The EXCOMM meets to discuss Cuba.
President Kennedy sends a message to Mrs. Niels Bohr upon the death of her husband. The President states "His great achievements in the quantum theory of the atom have been basic to modern advances in physical science."
During his forty-fifth news conference President Kennedy announces that Soviet Premier Khrushchev has informed him that all of the IL-28 bombers in Cuba will be withdrawn in 30 days. The President also says that "evidence to date indicates that all known offensive missile sites in Cuba have been dismantled." President Kennedy says that "if all offensive weapons systems are removed from Cuba and kept out of the hemisphere in the future…we shall neither initiate nor permit aggression in this hemisphere" but the U.S. will not "abandon the political, economic, and other efforts of this hemisphere to halt subversion from Cuba nor our purpose and hope that the Cuban people shall some day be truly free."
President Kennedy defends the administration's news management during the missile crisis.
During his news conference the President reveals that Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru has asked for "massive" American military aid to repel a Chinese border incursion He says that he is sending a special mission to New Delhi, India to determine what military aid may be needed.
President Kennedy orders an end to the naval quarantine of Cuba.
President Kennedy issues Executive Order 11063 "directing Federal departments and agencies to take every proper and legal action to prevent racial and religious discrimination in the sale or lease of housing facilities owned or operated by the Federal Government" or housing built or purchased with Federal aid. The order also creates a cabinet level President's Committee on Equal Opportunity in Housing to implement the action.