Cuban Missile Crisis Kennedy and showed him the U-2 photographs and briefed him on the CIA's analysis of the images. At 6:30 pm EDT, Kennedy convened a meeting of the nine members of the National Security Council and five other key advisors, in a group he formally named the Executive Committee of the National Security Council (EXCOMM) after the fact on October 22 by the National Security Action Memorandum 196. Without informing the members of EXCOMM, President Kennedy tape recorded all of their proceedings, and Sheldon M. Stern, head of the Kennedy library transcribed some of them. The US had no plan in
Roots of the Cuban Missile Crisis Roots of the Cuban Missile Crisis Roots of the Cuban Missile Crisis is a 48-minute 2001 Cold War documentary by New Line Home Video with "film footage from the era [and] newly created interviews covering U.S./Soviet relations from post-WWII Europe through the end of the crisis". The documentary is a ""Beyond the Movie" feature" on the infinifilm DVD for the movie "Thirteen Days" and synthesizes archival footage and still photography, interviews, "Trinity and Beyond" documentary scenes, and "Thirteen Days" movie scenes and sequences (many with archival footage). Topics regarding the crisis' roots covered by the film include the 1938 Munich