Claim: On our stage: 'the US did a full blockade of Cuba in 1962'
MISLEADINGTHE ANSWER
The US called it a 'quarantine', limited to offensive weapons, chosen over 'blockade' because a blockade is an act of war. Naval interdiction is the real comparison point; 'full blockade' overclaims.
SOURCE
JFK address, 22 Oct 1962 (JFK Library); US Dept of State, Office of the Historian
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