Movietone newsreel on Cuban Missile Crisis
- Title
- Movietone newsreel on Cuban Missile Crisis
- Genre
- News report
- TX Date
- Unknown
- Year of production
- 1980
- Play audio
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- Duration
- 00:01:45
- Description
- Archive Movietone newsreel on the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, presented by Leslie Mitchell. He describes how Cuban exiles attempted a sabotage mission in Cuba in 1962 amid concern that Fidel Castro had become a pawn of the Soviet Union by allowing Soviet missiles to be placed there.
- Contributors
- Leslie Mitchell; Movietone News
- Keywords
- USA; Cuba; USSR; International relations; Nuclear weapons; Cold War; Fidel Castro; Cuban Missile Crisis (1962); Communism; Missiles; John F. Kennedy; Communists; Leslie Mitchell
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LBC/IRN, "Movietone newsreel on Cuban Missile Crisis". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/lbc/search/index.php/segment/0018500146003 (Accessed 28 Apr 2025)