JFK and Khrushchev meet in Vienna: June 3, 1961 By Andrew Glass 06/03/2009 08:45 AM EDT On this day in 1961, President John F. Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev met in Vienna for a two ...

John F. Kennedy - Nikita Khrushchev. June 3, 1961. Though the handshake pictured here may seem benign, the series of events triggered by this meeting of President Kennedy and then-Soviet leader ...

Kennedy believed his first diplomatic meeting with Nikita Khrushchev would be a lesson in compromise. ... John F. Kennedy (archival): I will tell you now that it was a very sober two days.

“You (JFK) in your turn gave (to Khrushchev) the assurances that the so-called “quarantine” would be promptly removed and that no invasion of Cuba would be made, not only by the U.S. but by ...

One evening in October 1962, Nikita Khrushchev attended a performance of Boris Godunov starring the American opera star Jerome Hines. Khrushchev led a standing ovation and congratulated Hines ...

President John F. Kennedy at his 1961 meeting with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in Austria. Kennedy was reportedly angry over his performance with the Communist leader.

FILE - In this June 3, 1961, file photo, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and President John F. Kennedy talk in the residence of the U.S. Ambassador in a suburb of Vienna. (1961 File Photo / The ...

JFK was shaken by Khrushchev’s bullying behavior at their Vienna summit in June 1961, telling close colleagues that he felt “savaged” and even shedding tears on Air Force One a few days ...

In July, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev had reached a secret agreement with Cuban premier Fidel Castro to place the nuclear missiles in Cuba to deter another “Bay of Pigs”–style invasion ...

People read newspapers in Piccadilly Circus in London after President John F. Kennedy's assassination on Nov. 22, ... Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev was in his house in Kyiv when the phone rang.

For the great-granddaughter of Nikita Khrushchev, ... He agreed to remove Soviet nuclear missiles from Cuba in exchange for President John F. Kennedy’s promise that the U.S. would not invade the ...

On this day in 1961, President John F. Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev met in Vienna for a two-day summit. In a letter delivered to Khrushchev in March, Kennedy proposed the two ...