owever Castro did not accept the nuclear warheads very enthusiastically because he knew that the U.S. would be infuriated when they learned of the missiles in Cuba. This planted the seeds which would soon blossom into the Cuban Missile Crisis.
             The two men in charge of the fate of the world for 13 days were U.S. President John Fitzgerald Kennedy (JFK) and U.S.S.R. Premier Nikita Khrushchev. President Kennedy was borne May 29th 1917 in Brookline, Mass. He attended Harvard University and graduated in 1940. After leaving school JFK joined the Navy where he was almost killed in WW II when his ship a PT 109 was destroyed and sank. Kennedy swam towards land towing a fellow crewman to shore with him. After this incident Kennedy left the navy and got into politics. In 1946 and was elected to congress. Kennedy was a family man he had a wife Jacqueline Kennedy and three kids Caroline , John F Kennedy Jr. (died in 1999) and Patrick (died in infancy). Kennedy won the Pulitzer Prize in 1957 for his book "Profiles of Courage". Kennedy was elected President in 1960 after defeating Vice President Richard Nixon.
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