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Quarantine Proclamation: Interdiction of the Delivery of Offensive Weapons to Cuba, signed October 23, 1962, selected pages:
At 7pm, on October 23, President Kennedy signed this document, authorizing the naval quarantine of Cuba. It would go into effect at 10am the next morning. The quarantine line would be a 500-mile radius from the eastern tip of Cuba.
A legal expert at the State Department had suggested that the term "quarantine" would be less belligerent in its connotations, since a blockade was regarded under international law as an act of war. |