NBC WHITE PAPER: CUBA: THE MISSILE CRISIS (TV)

Summary

One in this series of irregularly scheduled documentaries. This program looks at the following stages of the Cuban missile crisis: tension after the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion, with clips of Pres. John F. Kennedy, Cuban leader Fidel Castro, and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev; U-2 photos of Russian offensive missile sites in Cuba; Kennedy's decision to order a naval blockcade of Cuba to keep out Soviet missile supply ships; clips of Kennedy's October 22, 1962, speech to the nation, Castro denunciation Stevenson-Zorin U.N. debate; and success of the blockcade and Khrushchev's pledge to withdraw the missiles. Included are interviews with Kennedy advisers McGeorge Bundy and Theodore Sorensen.

Details

• NETWORK: NBC
• DATE: February 9, 1964 Sunday 10:00 PM
• RUNNING TIME: 0:51:52
• COLOR/B&W: B&W
• CATALOG ID: T79:0067
• GENRE: Public affairs/Documentaries
• SUBJECT HEADING: Bay of Pigs Invasion, Cuba, 1961; Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962; Cuba - Officials - Talk/Interviews; United Nations; U S - Foreign relations - Cuba; U S - Foreign relations - U S S R; U S - Officials - Talk/Interviews; U S S R - Officials - Talk/Interviews
• SERIES RUN: NBC - TV series, 1960-1980
• COMMERCIALS: N/A

CREDITS

• Irving Gitlin … Executive Producer
• Fred Freed … Producer, Writer
• Len Giovannitti … Director, Associate Producer
• Chet Huntley … Narrator
• Elie Abel
• Martin Agronsky
• McGeorge Bundy
• Fidel Castro
• Jean Daniel
• Herbert Dinnerstein
• Peter Hackes
• John F. Kennedy
• Nikita S. Khrushchev
• Ray Scherer
• Sorensen, Theodore (See also: Sorensen, Ted)
• Adlai Stevenson