Post by ADMIN on Oct 20, 2022 4:57:33 GMT -5
JFK Boards | 60 Years On
Thurs. Oct. 20, 2022
Today's links from JFK Boards are here:
Oswald's Rifle | The Walker Bullet
Erasing the Past...FBI/CIA records re: Karyn Kupcinet
Six Close Calls During the Cuban Missile Crisis
Sixty Years On | Oct. 20, 1962 (click here for video)
"Both the United States and the Soviet Union conducted high-altitude nuclear tests, already scheduled,
even as U.S. President Kennedy was deciding on a confrontation between the two nations over the missiles in Cuba.
The US exploded a weapon 91 miles over the Pacific Ocean, and the USSR followed two days later with a blast
93 miles over Kazakhstan. The Joint Chiefs of Staff raised the nuclear alert status to DEFCON 3" [Wikipedia]