Cuban Missile Crisis Documents From the Washington Post

The Washington Post has announced a special seven-day opportunity to view newspaper articles written between October 22 and October 29, 1962 -- the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

You can get to the newspaper sections at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/digitalarchive/index.html . Every day a new edition of the newspaper will be added (currently October 22 and October 23, 1962, and are available.)

The papers are in PDF format. Click on a date and the paper will load. The paper is presented as it originally appeared -- ads, comics, and all. The October 22 paper was 45 pages long. A pulldown menu at the top of the page allows you to choose the page you want to view (there are also forward and back arrows next to the pulldown menu.) A zoom of 100% allowed me to read anything I wanted to read, though you can zoom in closer if you like just in case you didn't quite get everything in the Peanuts cartoon.

There are a few other offerings in addition to the newspaper editions. There are pointers to recent stories related to the Cuban Missile Crisis, commentary, and a couple of presentations related to the crisis. Worth a look.

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