'This hurts me more than it hurts you!'

Cartoon shows Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev as a dentist about to extract Cuban leader Fidel Castro's teeth, drawn as missiles. In 1962, the United States discovered that the Soviet Union was installing missiles in Cuba. During the ensuing "Cuban Missile Crisis," President John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) announced that he was placing a blockade around Cuba to prevent the delivery of any more weapons. Khrushchev threatened war if Russian ships were stopped but finally backed down and agreed to remove the missiles.
Published in: The Hartford times.
Published in Valtman : the editorial cartoons of Edmund S. Valtman, 1961-1991. Baltimore, Md. : Esto, 1991, p. 17.
Exhibited in: Kennedy and Krushchev in Vienna, The Vienna History Museum, Vienna, Austria, 2005.
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Unprocessed in PR13 CN 1999:142.005