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[Cuban missile showdown] – Antique Print

[Cuban missile showdown] — historic drawing
[Cuban missile showdown]. Historic drawing 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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Three of the principal figures in the Cuban Missile Crisis are cast as gunfighters in this drawing, with Fidel Castro, John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev squaring off as if on a dusty frontier street. It is rendered in India ink over pencil on illustration board, a method typical of editorial cartoons of the period. The record dates its publication to October 24, 1962, two days after Kennedy announced a naval quarantine of Cuba, when the standoff over Soviet missiles on the island was at its most tense. Dueling and gunfight imagery was a familiar shorthand for brinkmanship in Cold War cartoons, and the frontier metaphor makes the stakes of that week easy to read at a glance.

Medium1 drawing : India ink over pencil on illustration board ; 38.3 x 45.3 cm. (sheet)
Genre1976
Notes1962 Oct. 24 [publication date]
SubjectsCastro, Fidel,--1926- Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald),--1917-1963. Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich,--1894-1971. Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962. Dueling--1960-1970. Gunfights--1960-1970.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,325 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-143902

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