Hope, Through History: Episode 4 | JFK and the Cuban Missile Crisis

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🗓️ 12 May 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

It is known as the most dangerous moment in human history. In late October of 1962, American spy planes discovered Soviet missile bases with nuclear capabilities on the island of Cuba. Normalcy was put on indefinite pause as millions of Americans grappled with terrifying idea that at any moment, without warning, their communities and loved ones could be decimated by an atomic bomb. While military leaders and hardliners clamored for aggressive action, it was the patience and poise of a president that saved the world from mass destruction. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sports Media is filled with an endless stream of personalities, stories, and gossip, and I'm here to cover it all.
0:08.0	I'm John Arran, Puck's Sports Correspondent, and I've been covering the media business for right around 30 years. I have a new
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0:19.0	owners boxes that run the entire sports business. Twice a week, I will bring on the smartest people I know
0:25.0	to break down the hottest topics in sports media
0:28.0	and give you a window into the inside conversations
0:31.0	that are happening throughout sports media. the best known personalities in the business, everyone from Payton Manning to Jimmy Battaro.
0:37.0	If you have designs to make the Varsity itself, you need to listen to the Varsity Podcast.
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0:57.0	John F. Kennedy's first reaction was intensely and explicitly personal.
1:08.0	He can't do this to me, the President of the United States said as he was briefed in bed about
1:14.1	the deployment of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba. A deployment that put these
1:19.0	weapons of mass destruction fewer than 15 minutes away from Washington, D.C.
1:25.0	It was the morning of Tuesday, October 16, 1962,
1:28.8	the beginning of two of the most dangerous weeks
1:31.6	in human history.
1:32.8	Kennedy called his attorney general, his brother Robert Kennedy, with the news.
1:38.0	Oh shit, shit, shit, R.F. case said, those sons of bitches Russians.
1:44.0	As Jacqueline Kennedy described it to Arthur Slaisinger Jr. after JFK's assassination,
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