Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs Edwin
Martin seeks a resolution of support from the Organization of
American States. Ambassador to the United Nations Adlai
Stevenson lays the matter before the U.N. Security Council. The
ships of the naval quarantine fleet move into place around Cuba.
Soviet submarines threaten the quarantine by moving into the
Caribbean area. Soviet freighters bound for Cuba with military
supplies stop dead in the water, but the oil tanker Bucharest
continues towards Cuba. In the evening Robert Kennedy meets with
Ambassador Dobrynin at the Soviet Embassy. After the
Organization of American States endorsed the quarantine,
President Kennedy asks Khrushchev to halt any Russian ships
heading toward Cuba. The president's greatest concern is that a
US Navy vessel would otherwise be forced to fire upon a Russian
vessel, possibly igniting war between the superpowers.