Author Description

This volume presents all the correspondence between Pres. Kennedy & Chairman Khrushchev. It includes the written messages exchanged directly between the two leaders through the Soviet Embassy in Wash., or the American Embassy in Moscow. Also included are those oral messages the editors have identified that were conveyed to the Pres. from the Chairman through an intermediary & reduced to a written record as well as the earliest exchanges between Pres.-elect Kennedy & Chairman Khrushchev & Mrs. Kennedy's personal message to the Chairman after the assassination of the President.