Title: Cuban Missile Crisis: October 19, 1962 Speaker: John F Kennedy Delivered On: 1962-10-19 Place: Washington, D.C. Subject: Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962. United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union. Audio/Video Available: Listen Transcript/Log: View Transcript/log Description: See resource for October 18, 1962 for brief description of the Cuban Missile crisis and timeline up to this date. October 19: JFK meets with the secretary of defense, Robert McNamara, and the members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff before leaving on a scheduled campaign trip to Ohio and Illinois. References: