Events held in the United States during the Cuban Missile Crisis of October, 1962 when the United States and the Soviet Union confronted each other with nuclear destruction. USAF (United States Air Force) F-100 Super Sabre jet fighters in flight. A sign reads 'NAS KEY WEST'. A USAF F-104 Starfighter supersonic interceptor aircraft makes a landing. USAF F-105 Thunderchief supersonic fighter-bombers are armed by airmen at an airfield. Aerial view of a base in Florida showing USAF airplanes in place. Aerial view of air evacuation equipment at a field. Surface to air missiles are readied at a beach. A radar in operation. Barbed wire obstacles are set up along a beach by U.S. troops. A USAF RB-66 Destroyer reconnaissance aircraft takes off from an airstrip. U.S. Marines reach U.S. Navy Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. Americans are evacuated from Guantanamo as a precautionary measure. View of a long touchdown run in a college football game between Northwestern and Ohio State teams.
Hurricane scenes and damage in the Florida Keys from the strongest hurricane ever to strike the United States, making landfall in the Florida Keys on September 2, 1935. It had a pressure reading of 892 millibars. Massive winds blowing and bending palm trees. Vehicles damaged. Derailed train on railway track.
Aardvarks in Crandon Park Zoo (6747 Crandon Blvd. Key Biscayne, Florida United States) in Key Biscayne, Florida, United States. A newborn aardvark or anteater born in captivity. The baby aardvark eats, sleeps, and walks around. A puma or cougar in a cage. A monkey with his tongue out. A zookeeper holds the aardvark in his hands.
Telephone lines laid along the Florida coast in the United States. Equipment in view during the extending of telephone lines along the Florida coast. A crane beside the train station in the town of Jewfish, Florida in the upper Florida Keys. A board on the train station building reads 'Jew Fish'. The crane at work. Florida in later years: View of rolls of telephone cables outside a building. Men laying telephone cables from a roll kept on a wheel cart. A small wooden building with a board that reads 'The New Telephone Bldg., Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company'. Another small building with a few boards. One of the boards reads 'Keeping Face With Orlands'. A large concrete building with a path in the front. Trees along the side of the path.
U.S. President elect John F. Kennedy and U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon meet in Key Biscayne, Florida. Vice President Richard Nixon smiles as he awaits the arrival of John F. Kennedy. Kennedy gets off a car and shakes hands with Vice President Nixon. They meet to restore their cordial relationship. Newsmen gathered around the two statesmen.
President Herbert Hoover and others leave for fishing grounds in Long Key, Florida. President Herbert Hoover and others walk to the dock. Party gets into Jeremiah Milibank's boat ' Saunterer' Men push the boat away from the dock. Boat with an American flag hoisted on it. President and others take to smaller boats to catch sail fish.
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