--- title: Cuban Missile Crisis: Watch Vintage News Footage description: The face-off came to an end on Oct. 28, 1962 canonical: https://time.com/4091355/video-cuban-missile-crisis/ author: Joyce Lee article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-10-28T21:03:53.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:01:07.191Z article:section: History og:title: Cuban Missile Crisis: Watch Vintage News Footage og:description: The face-off came to an end on Oct. 28, 1962 og:url: https://time.com/4091355/video-cuban-missile-crisis/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd62b880982de196b/69886e8ea988ca124a6b506e/gettyimages-104405052.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: GettyImages-104405052 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Cuban Missile Crisis: Watch Vintage News Footage twitter:description: The face-off came to an end on Oct. 28, 1962 twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd62b880982de196b/69886e8ea988ca124a6b506e/gettyimages-104405052.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # See Vintage News Footage of the Cuban Missile Crisis by [Joyce Lee](https://time.com/author/joyce-lee/) ## Joyce Lee Oct 28, 2015 9:03 PM UTC  by [Joyce Lee](https://time.com/author/joyce-lee/) ## Joyce Lee Oct 28, 2015 9:03 PM UTC It was 53 years ago Wednesday that one of the tensest periods of modern history came to an end as, on Oct. 28, 1962, President Kennedy announced that the Soviet missile installations in Cuba were being dismantled. At the time, as the nation and the world waited to see what would happen, news cameras were watching too. “President Kennedy announced his decisions on television to a somber nation,” TIME [noted](http://time.com/vault/issue/1962-11-02/page/33/) after the crisis had passed, “and found that nation overwhelmingly behind him.” **_Read more about the Cuban Missile Crisis from 1962, here in the TIME archives:_** [Showdown On Cuba](http://time.com/vault/issue/1962-11-02/page/1/) ### A History of Cuba-U.S. Relations in 13 TIME Covers  Fulgencio Batista on the Apr. 26, 1937, cover of TIME TIME  Fidel Castro on the Jan. 26, 1959, cover of TIME Cover Credit: BORIS CHALIAPIN  Che Guevara on the Aug. 8, 1960, cover of TIME Cover Credit: BERNARD SAFRAN  Jose Miro Cardona on the Apr. 28, 1961, cover of TIME TIME  Blas Roca on the Apr. 27, 1962, cover of TIME Cover Credit: BERNARD SAFRAN  Adm. George Anderson on the Nov. 2, 1962, cover of TIME Boris Chaliapin  Fidel Castro on the Oct. 8, 1965, cover of TIME Cover Credit: BERNARD SAFRAN  Fidel Castro (and others) on the Jun. 13, 1969, cover of TIME Cover Credit: KARSH, HARRY REDL, BEN MARTIN.  Fidel Castro and Cyrus Vance on the Sept. 17, 1979, cover of TIME Cover Credit: RODDEY E. MIMS; HIRES-GAMMA/LIAISON.  Fidel Castro on the Dec. 6, 1993, cover of TIME Cover Credit: GIANFRANCO GORGONI  The Sept. 5, 1994, cover of TIME Cover Credit: PAUL DAVIS  Fidel Castro on the Feb. 20, 1995, cover of TIME Cover Credit: DAVID BURNETT  Fidel Castro and the Pope on the Jan. 26, 1998, cover of TIME Cover Credit: GERARD RANCINAN ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4091355/video-cuban-missile-crisis/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4091355/video-cuban-missile-crisis/"},"headline":"See Vintage News Footage of the Cuban Missile Crisis","datePublished":"2015-10-28T21:03:53.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:01:07.191Z","description":"The face-off came to an end on Oct. 28, 1962","url":"https://time.com/4091355/video-cuban-missile-crisis/","keywords":["Media","John F. 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