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This is the stage
on which we will dramatize
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13 days in which the world came
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to the brink of nuclear war.
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The names we use are real.
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The action is based upon
the historical record
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as drawn from reportage,
academic studies,
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eyewitness accounts,
and official documents.
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1962, the President of the United States,
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
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All Americans, as well as all our friends
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in this hemisphere have become concerned
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over the recent moves of the Soviet Union
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to bolster the military power
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of the Castro regime in Cuba.
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It continues to be the policy
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of the United States
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that Cuba will not be allowed
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to export its aggressive purposes
by force,
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or the threat of force.
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Cuba will be prevented, by whatever means
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may be necessary from taking action
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against any part
of the Western Hemisphere.
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The weapons and military equipment
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sent by the USSR to Cuba
are designed exclusively
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for defensive purposes,
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and the President of the United States
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knows what these means of defense are.
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How can they threaten the United States?
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No, you have invented this threat.
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It is not the weapons you fear,
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it is the revolutionary spirit.