By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 18:11 EST, 15 October 2012 | UPDATED: 07:36 EST, 16 October 2012 President John F Kennedy had a speech prepared in October 1962 announcing to the American people a full scale invasion of Cuba, it has been revealed. He planned to deliver the speech if Soviet ships carrying strategic nuclear missiles reached the island, according to papers released from Robert F Kennedy’s personal files by the John F Kennedy Presidential Library. The Cuban Missile Crisis began 50 years ago this week, but even now the world is still learning just how close it was to nuclear Armageddon during those 13 tense days.
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'If we go in, we go in hard': Cold War documents found in stash of Robert F Kennedy's papers
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Other revelations include a mafia-assisted plot to kill Fidel Castro
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... And RFK also found time to doodle in the margins
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