Cuban Missile Crisis

1.  My Memories of the Cuban Missile crisis: I was 14 years old and my father and I were doing some electrical work (he was an electrical contractor)  on a rich lady's house and estate on top of one of the hills of the Los Angeles area some place like Brentwood or the top of Topanga Canyon or something like that. The lady must have been 25 to 30 years old and a rich heiress and she was shaking and she could barely speak she was so scared. She said to us that she was going to her cabin (likely a mansion) in the Sierras because she thought Los Angeles would be gone (nuked) in the next few weeks. I was a little worried about her driving her car even, she was such a mess (but very beautiful too). As she drove away I said to my Dad, "Are we going to die Dad?" And his response was (typical world war II survivor fare). "That's a bunch of BS. Don't worry nothing is going to happen." I agreed with my very intelligent and macho father but I worried that she might be right too. But, being macho was how men were then. That's just the attitude you took, just like in World War II. (Damn the torpedoes!) That's just the way American men always were then.

1.  Cuban Missile Crisis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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   The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis, The Missile Scare, or the Caribbean Crisis, was a 13-day confrontation in October 1962 between the United ...

2. Cuban Missile Crisis - Cold War - HISTORY.com

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   Find out more about the history of Cuban Missile Crisis, including videos, interesting articles, pictures, historical features and more. Get all the facts on HISTORY.com

3. Cuban Missile Crisis - John F. Kennedy Presidential...

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   For thirteen days in October 1962 the world waited—seemingly on the brink of nuclear war—and hoped for a peaceful resolution to the Cuban Missile Crisis.

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   The Cuban Missile Crisis was a time of tension between the Soviet Union, the United States and Cuba during the Cold War. In Russia, it is known as the Caribbean Crisis.

5. Cuban Missile Crisis | Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer...

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   The Belfer Center has launched its first iTunes U course, "Cuban Missile Crisis: 50 Years Later," which is available for Apple iPads and iPhones.