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How JFK Sacrificed Adlai Stevenson and the Lessons of the Cuban Missile Crisis
The standoff 60 years ago has newfound relevance as Russian President Vladimir Putin threatens to deploy nukes in Ukraine.
October 16, 2022, 7:00 AM
By Peter Kornbluh, director of the Cuba Documentation Project at the National Security Archive in Washington D.C., and co-author of The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962.
"The misrepresentations set the stage for a generation of U.S. foreign-policy making based on inaccurate lessons from the missile crisis."
The standoff 60 years ago has newfound relevance as Russian President Vladimir Putin threatens to deploy nukes in Ukraine.
October 16, 2022, 7:00 AM
By Peter Kornbluh, director of the Cuba Documentation Project at the National Security Archive in Washington D.C., and co-author of The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962.
"The misrepresentations set the stage for a generation of U.S. foreign-policy making based on inaccurate lessons from the missile crisis."
How JFK Sacrificed Adlai Stevenson and the Lessons of the Cuban Missile Crisis
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Then there's this. Admittedly, written by an anti-Castro Cuban ex-pat. Dispute the argument, not the source. I was only 14, but a cousin, recently discharged after a tour in Germany, was left on the beach at BOP.
https://townhall.com/columnists/humbertofontova/2022/10/29/this-week-in-historyjfks-immorality-and-deceit-continue-n2615182
SFC Bernard Walko PO2 Marco Monsalve SGT Mary G.
https://townhall.com/columnists/humbertofontova/2022/10/29/this-week-in-historyjfks-immorality-and-deceit-continue-n2615182
SFC Bernard Walko PO2 Marco Monsalve SGT Mary G.
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CWO4 Terrence Clark
SGT Mary G. BOP - Bay of Pigs. Eisenhower encouraged. JFK withdrew support AFTER they landed.
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SGT Mary G.
PO2 Marco Monsalve I agree. Another case of having to wait a long time for more clarity.
I suspect we will all be long, long, long gone before there is ever clarification about the Kennedy Assassination, and 9/11.
I suspect we will all be long, long, long gone before there is ever clarification about the Kennedy Assassination, and 9/11.
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