... to the United States. Stevenson then made his most famous statement of the debate, saying "I am prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over, if that is your decision." Stevenson then presented the U.S. reconnaissance photos of Soviet missiles in Cuba to a stunned Zorin, showing ... U-2 spy plane that had been operating a routine mission over Cuba was shot down by a Surface to Air Missile (SAM) site. The pilot, Major Rudolph Anderson, was presumed dead (Fourteen Days in October). Premier Khrushchev had sent one letter to the United States government on October 26th in which .....

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