“Pages of history” features excerpts from The News Journal archives including the Wilmington Morning News and the Evening Journal.
Oct. 29, 1962, Evening Journal
JFK picks three to negotiate Cuban crisis
President Kennedy set up a special three-man committee today to handle negotiations looking toward an end to the Cuban crisis.
Kennedy designated John J. McCloy, whom he previously had appointed special assistant to U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson during the period of the Cuban emergency, as chairman of the group. …..