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This clip shows the footage of Marines being sent to Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis, then shows the solution and aftermath of the crisis.Marines disembark a plane. A soldier aims a gun, and in another shot troops stand on a tank covered in foliage. A map insert shows the naval blockade. An aerial shot shows ships sailing. A plane takes off from a moving aircraft carrier. There are shots from planes showing ships on the water. Men sit around a table in LS. A man asks Soviet Ambassador Valerian Zorin about the missiles. U Thant, Secretary-General of the United Nations, walks out of a car in Cuba; he has been sent by the UN to oversee the dismantling of the bases. He shakes hands with men, and then Fidel Castro speaks before a microphone. In aerial LS then MS, ships sail back as the crisis is solved.