This day, October 17th, in history, 1962: The Cuban Missile Crisis
The closest the world came (before) to a nuclear apocalypse.
Yesterday, the meetings with JFK (Jack), his brother RFK (Bobby), Secretary McNamara and the X comm team went late into the night.
It was a shock to JFK. Plus he didn’t know what he was squinting at in those black and white U-2 spy plane photos. It looked like farms to him.
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