Day 2: October 16, 1962
Still in his pajamas, John Fitzergald Kennedy is informed of missiles in Cuba. It becomes obvious that the Soviets were lying about the fact that they weren't putting missiles into Cuba. He is also informed that the missiles have a range of 1100 miles, but they are not yet operational. Kennedy then schedules two meetings for that morning. One is the formation of EX-COMM. ( Executive Commity of the National Security Council ) Robert Kennedy looks over a list the CIA made of more "aggressive" acts against Cuba. He approves them but EX-COMM has a better list. 1) do nothing. 2) negotiate with the Soviet Union. 3) attack with an air strike followed by an invasion of Cuba. 4) a quarantine of cuba. 5) strike Cuba with nuclear weapons. They also believed that the nuclear warheads had not yet made it to Cuba but some, infact, already had.
EX-COMM: John Kennedy, President
Lyndon Johnson, Vice President
Dean Rusk, Secretary of State
C. Douglas Dillon, Secretary of the Treasury
Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense
Robert Kennedy, Attorney General
McGeorge Bundy, National Security Advisor
John McCone, Director of Central Intelegence
General Maxwell D. Taylor, U.S. Army, Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff
George Ball, Secretary of States for Economic, Business, and Agricultural affairs
Llewellyn Thompson, Ambassodot to the Soviet Union
Ted Sorensen, Special Council to the President
Dean Acheson, Former U.S. Secretary of State
Roswell Gilpatrick, Deputy Secretary of Defense
Range of MRBMs U-2 photo of a MRBM site
