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History Cafe
Hosted by Jon Rosebank, Penelope Middelboe · EN
True history storytelling at the History Café. Join BBC Historian Jon Rosebank & HBO, BBC & C4 script and series editor Penelope Middelboe as we give history a new take. Drop in to the History Café weekly on Wednesdays to give old stories a refreshing new brew. 90+ ever-green stand-alone episodes and building...
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#14 'Eyeball to eyeball' - Ep 5 Why did Kennedy cause the Cuba Missile Crisis
Sep 2400:31:40Tap to summarize22 October 1962: President Kennedy goes on prime-time TV and announces a blockade around Cuba to prevent more Soviet missiles reaching the island. But US sailors call the so-called ‘quarantine’ nothing but ‘grand theatrics.’ Not a single Soviet ship is stopped by the US Navy. What was going on? (R) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →#13 'Russian roulette' - Ep 4 Why did Kennedy cause the Cuba Missile Crisis?
Sep 1700:24:03Tap to summarize15 October 1962: Soviet nuclear missile sites are discovered. It’s only three weeks before the mid-term elections. Kennedy decides that to negotiate publicly with Khrushchev would be a disaster at the polls; as would ignoring them which is what his allies advise him to do. So, as Noam Chomsky puts it, the President chooses ‘to play Russian Roulette with nuclear missiles.’ (R) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →#12 'The only way to save Cuba' - Ep 3 Why did Kennedy cause the Cuba Missile Crisis?
Sep 1000:22:21Tap to summarizeThe Cuban Missile Crisis begins not because Castro is a dangerous communist but because he is NOT. Khrushchev tells his ruling council: ‘The only way to save Cuba is to put missiles there’ - not only to prevent an American invasion, but also to keep Fidel Castro sweet. (R) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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