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ST-A26-1-62 29 October 1962
Meeting of the Executive Committee of the National Security Council (EXCOMM) regarding Cuba in the Cabinet Room, White House, Washington, D.C. Clockwise from top right side of table: Under Secretary of State George Ball; Secretary of State Dean Rusk; President John F. Kennedy; Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara; Deputy Secretary of Defense Roswell Gilpatric; Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Maxwell Taylor; Assistant Secretary of Defense Paul Nitze; Deputy United States Information Agency (USIA) Director Donald Wilson; Special Counsel to the President Theodore Sorensen; Special Assistant to the President for National Security McGeorge Bundy; Secretary of the Treasury C. Douglas Dillon; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson (mostly hidden behind Dillon); Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy; former Ambassador to the Soviet Union Llewellyn Thompson; Arms Control and Disarmament Agency Director William C. Foster; Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director John McCone (mostly hidden behind Thompson and Foster).

Please credit "Cecil Stoughton. White House Photographs. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston"

DSA supports Cuban Missile Crisis by 1-year anniversary

Members of the Executive Committee of the National Security Council meet at the White House Oct. 29, 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis. National Archives and Records Administration photo

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Photo by: Cecil Stoughton | VIRIN: 191015-D-D0441-002.JPG

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