Existing comment:
"It is not a fact that an intruding American plane could be easily taken for a nuclear bomber?"
-- Premier Khrushchev to President Kennedy, October 28, 1962
"The pilot made a serious navigational error which carried him over Soviet territory... I regret this incident and will see to it that every precaution is taken to prevent recurrence."
-- President Kennedy to Premier Khrushchev, October 28, 1962 |