EP24: The Missiles of October, Part One
57 years ago this month, humanity was faced with what was potentially the most dangerous crisis in history. Cooler heads prevailed, but it might not have gone that way. In fact, given what we know, it's hard to imagine that it did. This episode and a couple more will explore what happened and what might have happened, hopefully in a slightly new way.
The Secret Service agent who tried to do his job on that horrible day in November. He would have bee with Kennedy in a crisis.
Kennedy and Curtis LeMay. LeMay, in my little story, would have been in the Pentagon.
Can you pick out the security threats? JFK couldn’t. But he knew how to take advice.