The 50th Anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis Part 1/3

[@barrybbenson9151]

Time Stamps for myself: 8:12 introducing each person 11:45 Bobby Kennedy quote reference 12:30 tapes provided ultimate answer 10:15 talking about change in evidence 12:50 talking about negotiation 14:15 Split into two sides: people who wanted to accept it, people who wanted to decline it Kennedy against everyone else 15:15 Made decision despite every person in that room 17:05 New materials giving a better sense of the history 18:15 What we’ve learnt with new access to sources 19:05 What we’ve learnt about President Kennedy: he used diplomacy to stop nuclear Holocaust 26:30 Cuba recommending nuclear attack - one reason the crisis took the route it did (it was a turning point) 52:00 Talking about invasion on Cuba 53:30 closest to nuclear war 54:45 Why it’s important to study and learn the history 55:45 Kennedy was dedicated to back channel diplomacy 57:40 talking about a conversation on the 14th day (how important it is to connect the dots) 58:30 Talking about why advisors were so unaware of nuclear weapons destruction 1:01:00 secret tapes

[@brucevilla]

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[@leeweisbecker6048]

Russian woman didn't answer the key question: Did the Cubans with the tactical nuclear weapons have the power to use them without Soviet authorization? Anybody think the Soviets would have used them? Anybody think either side would have launched a general nuclear war over the Cuban issues? Anybody think either side could have stumbled into it through "miscalculation?"

[@glenroan]

The lesson of the Cuban crisis, so clearly stated, appears to have been not just lost but reversed, by current U.S.& Western policy which now has not just threatened, but has put in situ an arsenal of nuclear & other armaments on Russian borders! What response do we, can we expect from Russia? Should we be surprised if Russia should respond in the manner which U.S did in 1964? It is incredible and impossible to conceive a more perverse scenario and appears to confirm that. "we" have chosen to disregard any beneit of this "historical lesson" which this program now perversely celebrates! Can "we" please wake up and see what we now face rather than to self congratulate ourselves in our darkest ignorance....! We know what JFK would say to us if he now could speak, but we have chosen not to listen! Shameful. Tim O Sullivan Ireland