Kennedy got 1,200 cigars before ordering trade embargo on Cuba
President John F Kennedy got 1,200 Cuban cigars for himself before he ordered a trade embargo on the communist country in 1962. Kennedy's Press Secretary Pierre Salinger had managed to secure 1,200 cigars for Kennedy after the US President asked him to buy as many H Upmann Cuban cigars as he could find. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963.