About this episode

The episode discusses the initial response of President Kennedy to the revelation of Soviet missile buildup during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Spy plane pictures reveal the Soviet missile build up to the Americans. Now they know what Khrushchev has really been up to. How will a furious President Kennedy respond? Hosts Nina Khrushcheva and Max Kennedy, relatives of the superpower leaders, tell the personal and political history of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

People in this episode

Hosts: Nina Khrushcheva, Max Kennedy

Topics covered

• Cuban Missile Crisis
• Cold War
• US-Soviet relations
• political history
• personal history

Keywords

• Kennedy
• Khrushchev
• Cuban Missile Crisis
• spy plane
• Soviet missiles
• US response
• Cold War

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