Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev and President John F. Kennedy in front of the U.S. Embassy in Vieena, June 3, 1961. Photo: -/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images.

Kennedy, when he came out of that meeting with Khrushchev, was really shaken. John F. Kennedy (archival) : I will tell you now that it was a very sober two days.

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 ...

From the JFK Library collection, a portion of a letter from the Premier of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev to President Kennedy dated October 27, 1962, detailing his proposal to resolve t… ...

BOSTON - Caroline Kennedy and Sergei Khrushchev met at the John F. Kennedy Library on Sunday, 40 years after the Cuban Missile Crisis, in a what organizers called "the first ...

Description. From the JFK Library collection, a portion of a letter from the Premier of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev to President Kennedy dated October 27, 1962, detailing his proposal to ...