Esther I. Brown
dynamic, detail-oriented creativeJFK and Harold Macmillan on the Cuban Missile Crisis
Kennedy placed this call after having held crisis meetings with advisers all day. Macmillan received the call around midnight London time. U Thant, acting secretary-general of the United Nations, had been holding round-the-clock talks in New York. In the latest development, US Ambassador to the United Nations, Adlai Stevenson, had met with U Thant earlier that day in New York. U Thant, in turn, had been talking Soviet Ambassador to the United Nations Valerian Zorin.
Date:
10/26/1962
Time:
18:30
Participants:
John Kennedy, Harold Macmillan
