Interviews
Mary Dudziak, Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law at Emory Law School
Michael Dobbs, Cold War historian and author of One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War
Alice L. George, author of Waiting for Armageddon: How Americans Faced the Cuban Missile Crisis
Max Hastings, journalist, broadcaster, and author of The Abyss: Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962
Nina Khrushcheva, granddaughter of Nikita Khrushchev and professor of International Affairs at the New School
Fredrik Logevall, Pulitzer-Prize winning author, Harvard historian, and author of JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956
Tom Nichols, professor at the Naval War College and columnist for The Atlantic
Serhii Plokhy, Director, Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University, and author of Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
Brenda Gayle Plummer, Professor of History at University of Wisconsin, Madison
John F. Kennedy Library Archives
Department of Defense Cuban Missile Crisis Briefing Materials
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. Miscellaneous Presidential Files. Public Opinion Mail
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Central Subject Files
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Pierre Salinger
Papers of Robert F. Kennedy. Attorney General Papers
Theodore C. Sorensen Personal Papers
United States Office of Emergency Planning Records
White House Staff Files of Godfrey McHugh
Additional Primary Sources
Executive Order 9981: Desegregation of the Armed Forces (1948) National Archives
Fidel Castro's 23 October Interview. Castro Speech Data Base - Latin American Network Information Center
The Miller Center's Presidential Recordings Program, University of Virginia
National Security Archives at George Washington University, Washington, DC
United Nations Audiovisual Library
United States Department of State, Foreign Relations of the United States, 1961 - 1963
WGBH War and Peace in the Nuclear Age
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