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Historic Newsreel Footage of the Cuban Missile Crisis
Tensions intensified between Cuba and the United States in October 1962 as they appear destined to plunge the planet in global war (6:04)
Courtesy of: Critical Past
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October 2012 |
By Michael Dobbs
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Comments (5)
The discovery of these missiles and the action of everyone involved was truly amazing. Everything came down to individual action, first of the single photo interperter who found a missle being transported down a road on a single picture of a totally cloud covered roll of film,and of the hunanitarian decisions of the two primary leaders to ignore the advice they were receiving from their Military leaders. Believe it or not, there was a Divine hand on it all.
Posted by Daniel Mitchell on October 22,2012 | 03:01 PM
Jose, I don't remember anyone dying due to Kennedy's workout of the situation. Yet the missles were removed and the threat eliminated, the weapons did not stay as you asserted...and later the Russkies left too. If you wanted to fight Castro and his government maybe you should have stayed and fought instead of waiting for Americans to do it for you; after all, if he was able to take over the country with a badly armed rag-tag group, you and your like-minded comrades,could have overthrown him just like he did Batista's armed forces. Of course you would have had to have had the populace behind you.
Posted by David Meisner on October 7,2012 | 03:53 PM
My family and I were in La Habana , Cuba at the time . It is the place where we come from . On the week of Oct.14 , 1962 the United States of America , after learning of the nuclear offensive weapons being implemented in Cuba , had the option and opportunity of a preemptive attack to destroy those missiles but, the President and his brother Robert , opted for not using the advantage of surprise . Since then John F. Kennedy has been honored as a hero . A hero for what ? A hero for letting the Russians and his weapons stay in the threshold of America .
Posted by Jose Manzano on September 30,2012 | 09:32 PM
The photographic documentary style is astounding. It grabs the viewer and yells, "WAR". The visual component could be used to describe events from WWII and even the Mid-East wars of the last decade plus. I guess a good photo journalist is always a good photo journalist.
Posted by carol kronenwetter on September 24,2012 | 01:48 AM
way back a-when I was in the Big U nad T. rex ruled the quad...I took a History 128 course, and the center of it was the Cuban Missile Crisis (its impetus was: find a way to de-nuke So. Africa...this was 1975). We were treated to the (more) inside story, as opposed the silly Krushchev blinked PR, that...the US agreed to pull its Thors out of UK and its Atlases out of Italy and Turkey. However, my reading in the 90s, including in Cyrillic allow me no other theory that the whole deal was much more simple- Moscow to US- do not do another Bay of Pigs, or else... the reason for the "or else"? They built a satellite down link station in Cuba to allow Cosmos craft to keep a real time eye-in-the-sky on US ICBM sites, a perfect 1 strike warning system. The rightwingnut mili8tary mags printed howls and pix of this site in the mid 60s, you can dig them up even now. & in nuke war game scenatio sense, you see, if we took out their eye-in-the-sky they had to assume it was WW III, so... ...even today we don't mess with Cuba. The threat has never been lifted, even with 20 years foloowing the fall of the Wall, so to speak
Posted by M. J. Shepley on September 21,2012 | 04:57 PM