Cuban Missile Crisis and that while the Kennedy Administration had agreed not to invade Cuba, they were only in process of determining Khrushchev's offer to withdraw from Turkey. When former US President Harry Truman called President Kennedy the day of Khrushchev's offer, the President informed him that his Administration had rejected the Soviet leader's offer to withdraw missiles from Turkey and was planning on using the Soviet setback in Cuba to escalate tensions in Berlin. The US continued the blockade; in the following days, aerial reconnaissance proved that the Soviets were making progress in removing the missile systems. The 42 missiles and their
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