JFK - Letter to Widow of Major Anderson
President Kennedy sent the original of this letter to the widow of Major Rudolph Anderson, Jr., on the 28th of October, 1962. Anderson had been shot down as he flew a mission, over Cuba, to assess Soviet progress installing missiles on the island. JFK also penned the handwritten note on the letter. Click on the image to expand its view.
CreditsFacsimile letter online, courtesy U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.
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Biographies
- Anthony, Susan B.
- Attila the Hun
- Beethoven's Hair
- Benedict Arnold
- Brockovich, Erin
- Chronicles of Narnia
History
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- Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
- Assassination of John F. Kennedy
- Auschwitz: Place of Horrors
- Book Burning and Censorship
Disasters
- America Attacked: 9/11
- Black Death
- Challenger Disaster
- Columbia Space Shuttle Explosion
- Fatal Voyage: The Titanic
- Galveston and the Great Storm of 1900