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Screenshot of JFK's televised address.

President Kennedy's Cuban Missile Crisis Oval Office Address

In response to the build-up of Soviet nuclear missiles on Cuba, JFK ordered a quarantine of the island and military surveillance missions.

via C-SPAN on October 22, 1962

Cross-Channel Trip

A 1944 dispatch from Normandy.

by A. J. Liebling via The New Yorker on June 23, 1944

Battle of Little Bighorn

In the Battle of Little Bighorn, Custer Makes His Last Stand

"Who shall blame the Sioux for defending themselves, their wives and children, when attacked in their own encampment and threatened with destruction?"

by Richard Kreitner, Lewis Henry Morgan via The Nation on June 25, 1876

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