CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS EXHIBITION PHOTOS

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THE KENNEDY COLLECTION PHOTOS

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Photographs by Michael J. Basile, Courtesy of Florida International Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida.

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Suggested cutline: Visitors enjoy one of the many themed areas of the Cuban Missile Crisis exhibition at the Florida International Museum.  In this room, visitors view the address to the nation by John F. Kennedy on Oct. 22, 1962.  A full size Soviet SA-2 missile is on the other side of the window above the television.

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Sugested cutline: A Soviet SA-2 missile, one of the varieties deployed in Cuba in 1962, is pointed at a target in one of the galleries at the Florida International Museum.  The other side of the target is a retro living room in which John F. Kennedy reveals the fact that there are missiles in Cuba in a speech to the nation on Oct. 22, 1962 on a vintage television set.  

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Suggested cutline: The thirteen day countdown of the Cuban Missile Crisis is displayed on bright red walls.  Here visitors view the events of day seven, Oct. 22, 1962.

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Suggested cutline: Children view an interactive display of an air raid siren, originally used in Fair Lawn, N.J., on loan from CivilDefenseSystems.com and Chase Frost.  Visitors can push a button on the Civil Defense control box which sends the siren wailing.

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Suggested cutline: Visitors walk around a Soviet SA-2 missile in the Florida International Museum's Cuban Missile Crisis exhibition.

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Suggested cutline: A jukebox playing the hits from October 1962 along with a wall of popular magazines from the period delight visitors young and old at the Florida International Museum's Cuban Missile Crisis exhibition.

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Suggested cutline:  A portrait of John F. Kennedy by William Draper, on loan from the Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery, hangs in a re-creation of the Oval Office in the Florida International Museum's Kennedy Exhibition.

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Suggested cutline: Visitors examine the contents of President Kennedy's desk which includes the first words he wrote as President in the Florida International Museum's Kennedy Exhibition.  The setting is a re-creation of the Oval Office which is surrounded by a re-creation of the Rose Garden and other parts of the West Wing of the White House.

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