October 1962: When the world almost ended - Forgotten History
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- Nothing caught global attention and heightened tensions as did the Cuban Missile Crisis. The new young President John F. Kennedy faced off with the Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro and the seasoned communist Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. The outcome was uncertain. Written and hosted by Colin D. Heaton. Forgotten History is a 10th Legion Pictures Production.
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Plokhy, Serhii. Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis, W. W. Norton & Company, 2021.
Heaton, Colin D. and Anne Marie Lewis, Above the Reich: Deadly Dogfights, Blistering Bombing Raids, and Other War Stories from the Greatest American Air Heroes of World War II, in Their Own Words. Dutton Caliber, June 8, 2021.
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I'm thankful that we had more reasonable leadership at that time instead of the ridiculous people we have now.
Hardly reasonable back then. They were just as tyrannical as they are today
Yes. JFK at least wasn't an alzheimers patient.
I am not sure if JFK can be considered as reasonable, due to his brinksmanship behavior but when compared to some others, I can see why some would see him that way.
Yes but the one man that stood out to me was Robert McNamara. I believe JFK once said McNamara was his "star" during that 13 day dilemma.
This video is a crock of crapa. More bs here than a king ranch dung heap.
Another great one Mr. Heaton. My father was stationed at Wheeler Field, Hawaii when this happened. All men were issued rifles and put on alert. Dad said that he was scared out of his mind as to what they thought might happen.
Also, thanks for pointing out the oft left out fact that we had medium range nukes in Turkey aimed at Moscow.
Lol. This is the biggest fabricated story. Hawaii was on alert? With rifles? Lol.
My father was an old school diesel submariner during the majority of the cold war. After years of asking, he finally mentioned that the missle crisis was the worst stress of his 27 years in service.
To know that the whole Cold War saga was basically orchestrated by the bankers is pretty painful. I’m sorry for your father’s stress.
@@paulewog857 Can you elaborate more sir? I'd like to read more on this.
Lies.
I was in 7th grade at the time in Palm Beach County, Fla and from our school windows we watched military trains heading south 24x7.
7th grade u learned u were a human shield
Got to love those MAD programs.... "Duck and Cover"
Duck and Cover is still better than not ducking and covering. Made a hell of a lot more sense than any of the COVID policies.
@@RIVALContentJammerz During that time, we lived 3 miles outside Washington, DC. When we heard "FLASH" over the loudspeaker at school, we ducked under our desks. One day, when it happened, I asked my teacher why we were ducking under the desk when the entire school would be vaporized, she said, "Why don't we just do it for the fun of it?" I laughed and got under my desk. The whole class started laughing, too. I was in 5th grade.
There were two lunatics who welcomed Armageddon from ground zero in Cuba: Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. The fact that they did, and why, must be known and remembered, especially given the odd admiration for Fidel and Che by many misinformed young Americans.
“If the nuclear missiles had remained, we would have fired them against the heart of the U.S., including New York City,” Che gleefully admitted in November 1962 to Sam Russell of Britain’s Daily Worker. “The victory of socialism is well worth millions of atomic victims.”
Che was so vicious he was an embarassment even to the communists
Therefore going by your logic, there are several western lunatics egging on Ukraine……their leader the filthy USA! Why do to another nation what you didn’t like being done to yours?
Today, the situation now is much more dangerous and we have more "lunatics" thinking that they can "do it" and win!
You act like the US were peaceful neighbours to the Cuba and only wanted the peaceful and prosperous coexistence between the bigger and smaller nations.
Didnt the US pose an xistential thr eat to cuba? Was the Bay of 🐖 a friendly courtesy of the US to Cuba?
Another well presented and explained peice of history.
Thank you for all that you do folks!
Our pleasure!
It's complete fabrication. Myth.
Scary times. I was in my mid teens at that time. Lived in Nord du Quebec and wasn't too far away from the DEW Line. There was a lot of military activity going on. Will always remember that period in time.
Thank you Colin, this event has fascinated me since I was 12 , my father was a teenager at the time his memory of this and the Kennedy period, made it come to life ,
Glad you enjoyed the show, thanks for supporting us!
@@FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNEL it's my pleasure sir , appreciate you and the teams work
Chapter 2: Kruschev was then removed from power, Kennedy was shot and we all went to go have a happy proxy war in Asia.
Sheltering under a school desk during a drill seems laughable today but not then......West coast of Florida
the 'better than nothing' ideology lol
@@FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNEL LOL!!! Thanks for the memories.......😏
@@FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNEL We would have lived the turtle said so
BACK IN 1960s I FOUND A US ARMY MANUEL FOR WHAT TO DO DOING NUKE WAR .... ON LAST PAGE OF INSIDE COVER SOMEONE HAD WROTE .... IF USA SAY NUKES ARE COMING ... GO OUT SIDE ... SIDE DOWN ON THE CURB ... SPREAD YOUR LEGS AND BEND OVER AND KISS-YOUR*ASSS-GOOD-BY
Thank you, Colin, for exposing real reasons of various events. Yes, I remember he Cuban Missile Crisis, I think primarily because my dad was a B-52 crew chief. Being of a young age at the time I'm sure I did not fully understand, but I knew it was something serious.
The Soviet diplomat Anastas Mikoyan was the longest lived member of Lenin's original politburo. This Armenian was also the brother of the co-inventor of the famous Soviet MIG jet
As a real time civilian witness to these events, this is what i think of when i see a young person wearing a Che Guevara t-shirt. Thanks again Colin for Your efforts to keep History from being Forgotten.
Best Wishes to You, Your Family and Friends.
You are so right. I've seen these kids wearing the t-shirts without knowing anything about the man. Guevara and Castro armed with missiles would have resulted in the death of many American citizens, Cubans and probably Russians.
Please cover Vasily Arkhipov, the wonderful Soviet submariner who refused to return fire on the American using a nuclear weapon. He's the greatest story to emerge from the Cuba Missile Crisis. Thank you.
It's a great story, we'll look into an episode!
That sounds extremely interesting!!
This is not forgotten history. I was a junior executive at a truck line in Dallas and the Commanding Officer of the Military Traffic Management Command called all the truck lines to his office and ordered that we send every available flat bed tractor-trailer combination to Red River Army Depot in Texarkana Texas as soon as possible. We were to haul military equipment to Florida in anticipation of an invasion of Cuba. I asked what was going on, and the Colonel replied. "The balloon may be going up". Fortunately, it didn't.
I was in first grade living in Daytona, during the Cuban missile crisis. Classrooms had the "nuclear attack drills" Like that was going to help. But we were more trusting back then. We had televisions wheeled into the classrooms on carts, so the teachers could keep abreast of what was going on. Of course we were used to them, as we would watch the NASA launches and sometimes track hurricanes. I remember the tearful announcement over the PA a year later that the President had been assassinated. Everyone was sent home. Growing up in the 60's in FL was exciting, scary and sad all at the same time!
Very well done video. You really fit lot of information into only 17 minutes. Would have been nice to hear the detail about the Russian sub that was carrying nuclear torpedoes and how we're all damn lucky they were never used when probably alot of sub captains might have decided they had too, but I love the shorter videos you do. To many channels make these videos way to long to watch the entire thing. Nice job
Thank you for yet another fabulous video!
Do a show on the USS Liberty when it was attacked
We have two episodes on the subject. Please check them out in our library
They have done them and they're great videos!
He interviewed a sailor that survived
Excellent telling of an absolutely fearful time in our nations history. I would have really enjoyed sitting in on your classes back in the day.
Brian in Arizona
Wow, thank you!
Good documentary
All the important facts have been reflected in the presentation
Thank you Colin for this well done presentation. As a kid, I remember this time quite well. We were taught in school that the USSR was an evil nation focused on world domination. We did 'duck and cover drills' in school on a regular basis. People in the suburbs were digging back yard bomb shelters in earnest. We were familiarized with where the Civil Defense (CD) cache of supplies were in the storage room of our apartment building in the north Bronx NY. As the impending apocalypse grew closer, we were even more alarmed that people started hoarding food and supermarket shelves were growing empty. Even though my friends and I were very young with most of use not yet even teenagers, we had a remarkable understanding of the dangerous world we were living in thanks to our teachers and our families, unlike the disconnected and naive kids of today. These were very scary times indeed!
Love your work. 👍 Can you do a video on South Vietnam, the ARVN, and President Diem?
We will consider. Thanks for the suggestion
We will look into it, thanks for watching!
@@FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNEL Your welcome. Keep up the great work.
Very Well Done Dr. Heaton !!! Show Idea, Teddy Roosevelt and his family legacy, particularly how he and his son were both awarded the Medal of Honor, and their legacy of Military Service. Just something that popped into my head with changing generational values and how the sacrifice of service is not viewed the same way as it once was. A Very Special Thank You and God Bless You a day late to our Gold Star Families and to our Families of Fallen First Responders, for without our Military or our First Responders we would cease to function in a civil order. To my Fellow Families of Service Members who have come home but still carry the battle with them. I understand, I’m a former major city corrections and police officer. I carry all kinds of trauma with me from my time there. I’m praying for you and many others are too. ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
Thank you for the show idea and same to you!
"There is no new thing under the sun." Reminds me of the Cock and Bull going on in Ukraine today. Putting missiles on Russia's doorstep. Only warmongers such as victoria nuland and others think that's good diplomacy. 🙄
Thanks for the great video!
The world would NOT have ended.
Horrific, but civilization would have continued
Looking back, (I was a small child when JFK was president), he was a brilliant person, and teamed up with Bobby, they were incredible. I'm a Republican, stating this, and I'd never vote "D", for anybody that's on the roster today. But if JFK were alive, and running today, I'd vote for him. He truly, had the citizens of the USA's backs. (Which is why he had to be "eliminated").
I like the comment, but the fact that you say you’d never vote democrat makes that statement false. You wouldn’t vote for him based on politics because your stuck in a republican is better mindset. Hindsight is 20/20. If he were running today, you wouldn’t listen to anything he had to say
@@ianrvn1233 Go back, and read my comment again. SLOWLY this time.
there was a Soviet submarine that came under attack by US warships - by his orders from his high command, the captain could have launched his nuclear weapons
yet he didn't
saving the world
Second time I was ejected from a history class was over learning about this incident. The night before I had watched the History Channel (this was long before the Aliens fetish) and they interviewed naval operators, servicemen and Russian intelligence over the situation in Cuba. I read the section in my book for class, then began asking questions the next day. It started with "why did the book get everything wrong, compared to the on the interviews from the people who lived this?" And then boom, my dumbass 16 year old self ends up talking to principal about insubordination. The week earlier I was thrown out for pointing out another section that the history book was horribly wrong about, The Bay of Pigs. Gotta love Public/Government education centers with 20 year + outdated books.
The public school system has become a menace. Thanks for watching
They are trying to brain wash school children so they could send them to war at the age of seventeen.
May the enduring citizens of Cuba know peace + prosperity in our lifetime.
I remember it well. I was a teen. Even at that age, I felt the tension . Thanks.
Isn't this what NATO had Ukraine do to Russia?
Exactly. The double standards crazy Americans i swear
Thanks for sharing that bit of history,as i was born in 64,i had no idea about any of this,with the exception of the title,"cuban missle crisis". Good to know.
10 years before I was born.Amazing how close we came thankfully cooler heads prevailed.
My dad was called up during the Cuban Missle Crisis and was in the plane on the tarmac ready to go. They were told to stand down, crisis averted.
I was 13. Adults were nervous. Kids were not totally oblivious but our grasp of what nuclear war meant was sketchy at best. A year later when Kennedy was assassinated struck home harder for kids my age.
My Uncle was on the Kitty Hawk during the Missile Crisis,Nuclear War was almost a Certain,the World was awfully close to being Extinct!
Myth.
I remember the crisis as a kid I was thinking we are going to die in a nuclear holocaust, I'm 74 and more worried than ever.
Great Video!
Thank you again for another awsome video.
You should do a more in depth piece about the submarine aspect of the crisis. You know, the whole Vasili Arkhipov thing.
Many of our bases/ installations were on 24 hr Red Alert. Dad had Mom and us kids leave the country w/out telling anyone.
Another great episode….. Thanks for all the great content you guys provide !
Thanks for watching.
👍 I remember those days. It was a scary time. Today, it’s scary again.
Interesting as i study this in American History in high school, Australia. Didn't realise extent of naval support plus foreign support, but one thing that makes me think is the cost to support/maintain these missiles in Cuba. What happened if nuclear missile blew up in Cuba, what be fallout from that size warhead. This answer without fallout happened to USA, when Bill Clinton was gov of Arkansas. There's no way Cuba could have support these missiles especially decades of their poor social economic system.
Feels like right now we are in a similarly precarious situation.
Bravo. Well presented without all the artificial drama which was in the movie.
The Cuban crisis was real. I was at Ft. Hood and witness the loading of tanks and artillery on trains heading to Florida. We had been in the field with war game exercises when orders came down to cease operations and MP’s at every trail intersection directing all personnel and equipment to the train yard. Since we had been in the field for weeks we didn’t have a clue what was going on but we knew it was bad when we saw them loading dirty equipment on the trains.
Kennedy supersuper deserves a "least corrupt" video, for SURE. Without him the world wouldn't gone so off-course.
I read in the DARPA book about the ' CHIRSTOS EFFECT ' being used by both sides.
Thanks for watching
This channel is pure gold!
I was in High School when this took place. It scared me. I dreamed about it. It was over in a much shorter time than what we are going through now.
I‘m certain that 95% of the Missiles in Cuba would have surely been destroyed in the 1st Air Strike on Cuba. And after that many more Air Strikes would have followed.
And the Warheads were‘nt mounted on the Missiles and stored in a separate bunker. And the SS-4 was a Missile with liquid fuel, meaning it had to be filled up before it can be launched. That would have given the Air Force enough time to carry out at least two Air Strikes on the Missile Sites.
In Europe this Task was much more difficult. There were so many SS-4 Missile Sites in Belarus and Ukraine, that a First Strike with our Jupiter Missiles in Turkey and Italy would‘nt have destroyed all SS-4 Sites. Our only Chance was to exploit the soviet weakness of an extremly centralized command system. If the US would have carried out a First Strike against Moskow, they maybe would have had a Chance. It took the Jupiter Missiles 8-9 Minutes to reach Moskow.
The US could not even defeat North Vietnam ...
The father of a good friend of mine was a B-47 pilot based at McCoy AFB in Orlando. The friend did not know how serious things were until "daddy came home wearing a gun"....
JFK HAD SLEEPLESS NIGHT SHOWS THE STRAIN😮 INHIS FACE
We also withdrew Thor missiles from Britain. McNamara stated that they were outdated anyway...
Between 0:55 and 1:01, I think you got material for the paranormal. It's either a double exposure, shadow, or ghost.
I liked the voice pace
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Imagine if Giggles had been prez back then, holy crap. She'd be yapping about yellow school buses while their nukes were in flight and Florida would have been seized by the Russians.
You're missing the face that YT America had based various grades of missiles in Turkeye and the USSR had objected and asked that be removed. This was much prior to the USSR posturing and sending anything to Cuba.
All the world is a stage.
How we made it through the Cold War without incinerating the world still amazes me.
We were blessed to come out of this in one piece. We were that close. Hindsight tells us then like it does today that only IF. We may not be thrilled at the obvious but one can gather that had Richard Nixon been the chief executive from 1961-1969 Cuba and Castro would have been capitulated very early on and Vietnam would have remained a footnote in history.
As usual, good job.
God bless
Thank you! Cheers!
Sir, can you do a historical movie review as an idea? starting with Thirteen Days (2000)
So putting weapons next door to USSR angered them? Well why is everyone so confused about the fact that allowing Ukraine to join NATO is the exact same thing, hence what led Russia no invade Ukraine.
one big misconception was that cuba was not ready yet and were in the building stages when unknown to united states that they had many short range weapons ready to launch at any time and even thow you did mansion several Russian submarines in the area one was armed with nucular weapons . so any other direction they chose could of ended the world.
Thanks for watching
Awesomeness ..Thanks !
The part I never understood was Castro’s position in all this. At first he didn’t want the missiles, presumably because they made Cuba even more of a target for the US. Then he apparently wanted to fire the missiles at the US, which would have guaranteed US nuclear retaliation, incinerating him and everyone else in Cuba. This is more than “erratic” and goes even beyond “irrational”. It’s downright crazy.
But while he had often been bellicose and could be hot-headed, he had never seemed outright crazy before or since. So the story makes no sense. But at the same time this story has appeared repeatedly in multiple credible sources, so it cannot just be dismissed as anti-Castro propaganda.
Has this part actually been proven? Has anyone been able to explain whether Castro was serious, was bluffing, was playing some kind of “crazy like a fox” game, had lost his mind in the stress of the moment, or what the heck was actually going on with him?
Good question
It's a Rothschilds Game
lol
How would LBJ or Biden handle something like the 1962 missile crisis? I lived in DC when that happened.
Kennedy sent Bobby to "make the deal", which included letting JFK appear to be the big winner, at least in the eyes of the American people. It was a great bit of propaganda allowing for much Sabre rattling on Kennedy's part. The story we were given in school (6th grade) was tantamount to, Jack had to rough up Nikki and put him in his place. For all of Kennedy's bluster, Khrushchev got his way.
Where on Earth did you get that accent? It sounds Canadian. I've never noticed it in previous videos, but then again I haven't been watching for very long.
I love this stuff
In my humble opinion, krushchev strikes me as a wisened and seasoned leader. Kennedy strikes me as a relatively young and inexperienced leader. But he learned some lessons from the bay of pigs. Both were sensible enough not to get carried away. We learn from our youth, don't get carried away . But Castro strikes me a s a person bitter for revenge . After all , jfk tried to do away with him. Why no theory that Castro was behind jfk s assassination? But what do I know . That is just my humble opinion.
Quarantine , if you're trying to tell me something that we need to quarantine these dominic spirits said👸🏽
It's very interesting that you just posted this two weeks ago and just this last weekend Russia just sent war ships to Cuba...
That's not my war👸🏽
The USA military command was ok with a nuclear exchange, and said 30 million or more American lives was acceptable. This was brought to our attention in an interview last year.
They are a bunch of warmongers, screw them all.
Wahoo alright! 🇺🇸🦅Squawk
For me it seems: Their are a lot of different Kubacrises!😂😂
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Testimony. Cuban was in my vision, why?I don't know👸🏽
Yeah you mentioned the missles in turkey in a split second like it wasn’t the reason for the whole crisis itself. lol
It's just primal, animal instinct to battle for #1. Don't expect it to end anytime soon. However, it seems like there's many Americans today who just want to forfeit that position - but keep all the benefits.
You are a stupid, lunatic and have an IQ of a cockroach. Hey asshole, Is nuclear war glorious to you and worth being number one. You are such an asshole.
If this is all true,then am forced to tag fidel an idiot.
Meaning that if he had nukes and ballistic missiles, he would have began a war of historic proportions,inevitably leading to a genocide of half the world population.I thought he was just a communist, liberating is people,not putting his people within harm's way
Dude I mean: THAT'S really not forgotten history...
Ask a 20 year old about it...
You would be surprised by how many younger people know nothing about some of our key history. Thanks for watching.
@FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNEL you are kind of right but I graduated in 2018 and this stuff was still taught in somewhat deep detail in high school and lightly touched upon when I was in 8th grade. Always love a refresher like this video though.
Some young people don’t even know about 9/11. It’s sad of how much history is forgotten thanks to the socialist school system.
Admittedly not all the details were taught in school or in some outdated textbook. Including stuff not declassified until maybe the past decade or two. Such as how the cuban missile site purportedly was operational
83rd, 28 May 2024
JFK look a lil soft
Can you imagine trump.in this situation because he never trusted anyone
Thanks for watching
Thank you for this good question, the same question, will the United States and Russia start using nuclear weapons because they join the China Civil War? may LORD has mercy on people in world.
Did the United States missiles in Turkey play a greater part in launching the crisis? I was a child in Omaha Nebraska and we all went to Church mid-week and the Roman Catholic Church was packed. I believe also that military personnel and dependents were being move to locations considered to be safe from nuclear strike.
Absolutely it did. Just like our push to get Ukraine into NATO
Yes it did and it was United States fault for starting bay of pigs war and placing the Nuclear war heads in Turkey.
You started the fire, not the Russians.
a
JFK finest hour.
He surrendered to the USSR.
The Cuban Missile Crisis was the greatest defeat the US had ever suffered in its entire history.
Kennedy surrendered to the USSR, causing the Vietnam War to escalate much faster.
Lesson from this story- no nato ukraine
Why could USA Place missile in Turkey but Russia could not in Cuba? I dont like any of those countries, it just i don't understand why can only be one side. They presenter said "they shot first" when an American pilot died iver Cuba, but in my opinion,the USA did when they start with his bulli other countries. Don't you think so?
Because the two sides were not equivalent in the Cold War, dude - they arrested, exiled, and brutally executed people just for owning a Bible in their home, and we were the freest country in the history of humankind that allowed people to think, say, and believe whatever they wanted. America was not trying to spread an ideology of totalitarian statism that would enslave half the world and kill the other half: that’s why it was a problem for the Soviet Union to have bigger, more dangerous weapons than we did. It was the way of the American left during the Cold War to act like the two sides were equivalent by saying things like, “Why can’t they have nuclear weapons if we can?” and people today should understand how naïve and foolish that was. They were Communists, we were freedom lovers - that really should be enough to explain it to you.
acts of aggression and deadly force are two different categories. I think the US was fanning the flame but it might be a different story if we shot down a Soviet pilot over eastern Europe. Thanks for watching.
Is democrats what war
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