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[Group of Cuban refugees gather in a Manhattan Hotel room in front of television as President Kennedy announces a quarantine" of their home island during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962]" – Antique Print

[Group of Cuban refugees gather in a Manhattan Hotel room in front of television as President Kennedy announces a quarantine" of their home island during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962]" — historic photograph
[Group of Cuban refugees gather in a Manhattan Hotel room in front of television as President Kennedy announces a quarantine" of their home island during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962]". Historic photograph from the Latin America collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare historic photograph captures [Group of Cuban refugees gather in a Manhattan Hotel room in front of television as President Kennedy announces a quarantine" of their home island during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962]" in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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A small crowd of Cuban refugees, crowded into a Manhattan hotel room, watches a television set as President John F. Kennedy speaks. The broadcast is his October 1962 address announcing a naval "quarantine" of Cuba, the moment the Cuban Missile Crisis reached its most dangerous point. For many of these exiles, who had left the island after Fidel Castro's revolution, the news carried a painful irony: the country they had fled was now at the center of a standoff between Washington and Moscow. The photograph captures their attention on the screen, a record of how the crisis was followed in living rooms and gathering places far from Havana.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes1962
SubjectsKennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald),--1917-1963--Public appearances. Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962. Refugees--Cuban--New York (State)--New York--1960-1970.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,247 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-204360

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