Which US president was in office during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Which US president was in office during the Cuban Missile Crisis? The answer is John F. Kennedy.

John F. Kennedy was president during the Cuban Missile Crisis, the 13-day confrontation in October 1962 that brought the United States and the Soviet Union close to nuclear war. American reconnaissance photographs revealed Soviet nuclear missile sites under construction in Cuba, about 90 miles from the coast of Florida. Kennedy was informed on October 16, 1962.

Rather than immediately ordering an air strike or invasion, Kennedy chose a naval quarantine, announced publicly on October 22. The United States demanded that the Soviet Union remove the missiles, while American forces prepared for a possible conflict. After tense negotiations, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev agreed to withdraw the missiles from Cuba. The United States later removed its Jupiter missiles from Turkey in a secret arrangement.

The crisis ended on October 28, 1962. Lyndon B. Johnson was Kennedy’s vice president and later president, but he was not president during the crisis. Richard Nixon and Dwight Eisenhower had also held the office earlier, but neither was in the White House in October 1962.