Imagine if this was happening today. POTUS today couldn't come close to the wisdom and skill with which JFK navigated this crisis. Scares me to think what can happen today.
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Couldn't agree more. The sheer courage (I know JFK knew the fate of millions of lives was on his shoulders) and sense of responsibility isn't something I have seen again in any leader since that Saturday evening (if I remember the day correctly). I still have chills remembering.
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It's frightening to think how this situation would be handled today.
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Thank G-d we had him and Bobby when we needed them most. G-d help us now....
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Scary times! Remember Gov Rockefeller came on T.V. To tell NYS residents to look for shelter signs & take cover if necessary. Remember listening on the radio as the Russian Fleet sped toward Cuba but stopped & turned around Phew!!!
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I was 10 in KC that weekend. Vivid memories of fear as the news reported (very slowly and with big time lapses - all we had was TV and radio then) as the ships moved toward the blockade. Then the huge wave of relief when Russian fleet turned away. Drama was palpable. Loved JFK.
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I was 10. I think The NY Times ran a picture of the area, and using the Empire State Building as the center, drew the circles for immediate death, fire death, death in the days to come, death years later from radiation poisoning, mostly cancers. Relieved we would be immediate.
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Scary time, I was in high school and we all thought we were going to be nuked!
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I was 13. Detroit area. Recall school civil defense drills.
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Thankfully, Detroit was outside the range of Soviet missiles in Cuba, or you might have had to hide under those school desks made out of that amazing nuke-proof wood. Why didn't they build entire cities out of that stuff?
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I was around, but too young, and blissfully ignorant. I can’t imagine how frightened my parents must have been. But possibly even scarier than missiles is a prize-winning nitwit in the WH with both thumbs on the button.
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My uncle was a doctor in the Navy, based in Galveston. They issued him a rifle. He told them to go f#ck themselves.
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A REAL leader. Not a Russian tool.
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He was fucking a 19 yr old intern during that. A real abuser.
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Like “dear leader” isn’t a abuser??????
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I lived in Miami in 1962. The Marines took over our local shopping center parking lot. My father warned us that we might be dead in a few days. My anti-Catholic neighbor blamed Pope John XXIII saying the pope wanted Cuba back.
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If this happened today, we would all be dead...or Red.
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Love the straightforward Daily News headlines.
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