This is the eighth of fourteen episodes following the Cuban Missile Crisis day-by-day. We'll be back tomorrow, and the day after that until the end of the crisis. All the episodes are already available to the TimeGhost Army on www.patreon.com/timeghosthistory or timeghost.tv. By joining us there you will also support the creation of these independent, realtime historical documentary series! Cheers, Joram . *RULES OF CONDUCT* STAY CIVIL AND POLITE we will delete any comments with personal insults, or attacks. AVOID PARTISAN POLITICS AS FAR AS YOU CAN we reserve the right to cut off vitriolic debates. HATE SPEECH IN ANY DIRECTION will lead to a ban. RACISM, XENOPHOBIA, OR SLAMMING OF MINORITIES will lead to an immediate ban. PARTISAN REVISIONISM, ESPECIALLY HOLOCAUST AND HOLODOMOR DENIAL will lead to an immediate ban. THE PROMOTION OF EXTREME, VIOLENT IDEOLOGIES IS ABSOLUTELY FORBIDDEN This includes the justification, or promotion of ideologies, regimes, and systems that have historically or are inherently contrary to the principles of democracy and human rights. To be clear some of these ideologies are Naziism, Fascism, Colonialism, Imperialism, Leninism, Stalinism, Revolutionary Socialism, Integral Nationalism and any other ideology that promotes authoritarianism, and a disregard for inalienable individual rights as outlined in the UDHR. Regimes that fall under this rule are for example: Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, the British Empire, Colonial France, pre-emancipation USA, Imperial Japan, Communist China, the USSR and any similar systems and regimes. While an academic discussion of these ideologies and regimes is permitted, even desired, any value statements or comparative posts to extoll their positive sides will be deleted, and may lead to a ban. . Here’s why: It is objectively true that the authoritarian regimes we cover in our series, be they far-left or far-right, were willing to use systematic oppression, violence, and murder to create or maintain their preferred system of governance. From the perspective of human rights, democracy, and plain decency, this is clearly unacceptable. Now, that is, of course, a morally absolute statement based on 21st-century morals and ethics. Therefore, in our content, we refrain from any such judgement and just tell the story as it is. We’re concerned only with the past. We don’t take sides, and we don’t decide which side deserves more blame than the other. Our comment section, however, is not taking place in the past. Our comments are made in the present-day, and political comments such as the ones we don’t allow are promoting a present-day agenda by whitewashing, diminishing, or even justifying the crimes of a past regime. We will not allow for such rhetoric in the same way most democratic European countries (where we create this content) won’t allow for such rhetoric. As historians, our very work depends on this so that we can continue interrogating the past free from political influence.
I was old enough to be living in fear of nuclear war during the last decade of the cold war and it was a truly terrifying experience that still lingers from time to time to this day. I caught news snippets, I saw the BBC film 'Threads' at school (which was horrendously distressing for that age group) and heard all of the playground gossip about the situation. One morning, when I was about 8 or 9, some idiot accidentally set off the air raid sirens all over my town - not just one siren, but many all echoing together - the sound of impending atomic death. I vividly remember the sinking feeling inside, like life itself was draining away and how quickly my little legs turned to jelly. I also remember screaming at my parents that we had to get to the nearest bunker (which I knew to be in the nearest city) and that we only had 4 minutes to get there - although in hindsight it was pointless as it was a government only bunker, it was 12 miles away and my parents didn't even have a car! I can't imagine what it would have been like to live through the Cuban Missile Crisis with that knowledge! By far one of your best documentary mini-series yet Indy and team. I'll just go 'duck and cover' in the corner!
Henrik G Integral nationalism (French: nationalisme intégral) is a type of nationalism that originated in 19th-century France, was theorized by Charles Maurras and mainly expressed in the ultra-royalist circles of Action Française. The doctrine is also called Maurrassism. It is staunchly antisemitic, chauvinist, and authoritarian. Maurassian thought was the basis of much of the doctrines that developed into Fascism in Italy, and Naziism in Germany. Today, it is still present in France, although the Monarchist ideas are no longer part of the ideology. The new ultra Nationalist movements in Europe and the US with elements of white supremacy also follow the ideas enshrined in Integral Nationalism.
These episodes should be shown in every north american highschool history class, they are so thorough, yet quick and to the point. Great for keeping uninterested teenagers engaged.
We not only lived in constant fear of nuclear war, but in the assumption that it was inevitable. Today, we assume the risk is gone. It is not. It is greatly reduced, but it is still there.
Realistically however, any large scale, cold war era level of nuclear war is however gone. Sure, India and Pakistan might have a limited exchange, sure, north korea could try to fire one off to somewhere. But the threat of mass death for the general population is very, very low. To an almost minimal level. Russia isnt the same place it was during the cold war, the infrastructure for communication today is wastly different and heads of states can communicate within a moments notice. The guessing game is largerly gone, not entierly of course, but today the risk is so low theres no need to run around scaring people up. Yes theres still nukes, but no, the mentality of using them is much, much reduced.
They appear dead because they are both still too cold. If you look closely, you can see near the end of the video that the left one has almost warmed up enough to form it's first bubble. I'm choosing to believe that this is a clever visual metaphor for the Cold War heating up and not just because Indy and crew couldn't be arsed to turn these things on several minutes in advance of recording.
This series is so well done I'm getting chills from an event 60 years ago. I can't imagine how intense this must've been for everyone in those meetings
I was 10, when this crisis developed. Hearing Kennedy’s speech again, just as I heard it again when you did an earlier series on the Cuban Missile Crisis, brings tears to my eyes!
I was ten as well. It all came back with a rush as Kennedy started to speak. I can still remember being glued to the TV with my parents, thinking "this could be it". This was far away in the outer suburbs of Melbourne, Australia and we were still shitting bricks.
Thanks for sharing your stories, can't imagine how powerful these memories must be for you. We hope to keep these events alive for future generations to learn from!
"So long mom, I'm off to drop the bomb So don't wait up for me. But while you swelter, down there in you shelter, You can watch me, on your TV." - Tom Lehrer, 1967
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My Dad was stationed at the Navy base in Key West in 1960, so he, my mom, and my five siblings (I was not in the picture yet) had a front row seat to the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Those recordings gives whole different level to these videos. Its like, more personal, or something like that... And I am in awe how confident Eisenhower was when he told JFK that Soviets will not use the nukes.... How confident he is in his judgement about such frightening topic... What a legend.
Ike had dealt with all of the Soviets during WW2, including Zhukov and Stalin himself. If he figured that Stalin wouldn't use nukes, then the odds of Nikita K. doing it were pretty low. Especially over Cuba...Berlin, maybe. That's from a time when Democrats and Republicans would consult one another during a national crisis. Shocking, isn't it??
I just think it’s cool that Kennedy sought out Eisenhower’s advice multiple times throughout this endeavor. I just don’t think that’s something Presidents would do now. Especially since they’re from different parties.
I bet Eisenhower was quite a respected figure, from wwii. Though, I don't know how he dealt with his US presidency. I hope he was better president than Ulysse Grant.
@L C - Dwight Eisenhower was a mixed bag. He did a lot of good at home (if you like highways and new deal social programs), and a lot of bad abroad (if you don't like interventionist foreign policy and regime changing coups).
Yeah, I don't think they're going to touch anything going on in the post-war Middle East... The collapse of the Iron Curtain could be an interesting mini-series. I was in the US Army at the time, and after we'd spent years training for "The Big One", expecting a major war with the USSR and its allies, to see the whole thing fall apart in a hot minute was kind of surreal. Watching the Berlin Wall being knocked down, we just looked at each other and said "WTF.... what now???" It was a very interesting time to be alive and actively involved in history.
Back in 1982, I was in my freshman year of college and got to attend a symposium on the Cuban Missile Crisis at the JFK Library (my foreign relations professor made arrangements for our attendance). In attendance were many of the key figures from the Kennedy Administration, including George Ball, Walt Rostow, Ted Sorensen, and McGeorge Bundy. I don't recall if Robert McNamara was there. I was born after the Crisis, and didn't understand the full gravity of the event until I attended the symposium. After the event, Walt Rostow came up to me and a group of my classmates to tell us that he was glad they were able to get a peaceful resolution for future generations like us. Being 18 years old, I didn't fully appreciate the chance I had to meet with so many key figures in history. Nevertheless, I haven't forgotten the event.
That must have been a very interesting time to attend a talk like that as well. Reagan had just been elected and was beginning to ratchet up the pressure on the Soviets that led to their eventual collapse. Did it seem like their experience during the missile crisis affected their views of the Cold War in the 1980's?
@@Raskolnikov70 I really can't say. I do recall that most of the panelists were not enthusiastic about Reagan, since they were generally Democrats and came from a different school of thought on the Cold War (Realpolitik/Detente as opposed to the staunch anti-Communism of Reagan). I will say that in 1982, I wouldn't have believed you if you'd told me that by the end of the decade, the Berlin Wall would be torn down.
@@fredaaron762 My hazy memories of the time (I was a teenager throughout most of Reagan's term) are of the Cuban Missile Crisis being brought up as a response to the perceived heating up of the cold war. There seemed to be a lot of people saying 'we came to the brink of anihilation once already, don't do this again!" about Reagans policies. In hindsight, outspending the Soviets turned out to be an effective strategy for defeating them, but at the time it seemed to me that there were people who thought it was being reckless. Less for us younger people maybe, because we didn't remember Cuba and had lived with the nuclear threat our whole lives without any kind of major incident. Said this before in other places, but by 1989 I'd already joined the US Army, had been through all kinds of training for "the Big One" and we had a very fatalistic attitude towards it. Kind of felt that if we went to war with the USSR it would just mean the end of everything so why worry about it. The time immediately after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Union was a lot scarier for us simply becuase we'd gone from a known bi-polar stalemate situation to a very chaotic world with lots of players. Something that doesn't seem to be remembered these days.
In 1962 as a 12 year old schoolboy at morning assembly the Head master prayed for deliverance from the threat of war. 7years later as an 19 year old airman on my first operational posting to R.A.F. Scampton a V bomber station just outside Lincoln I realized just how close the world had come to Nuclear war .At the time as part of Britain's nuclear deterrent Scamptonn had 3 Vulcan bombers armed with Blue steel nuclear missiles on permanent standby ready to be in the air within 3 minutes .However during the crisis all 3 Vulcan squadrones were fully armed and dispersed to satellite airfields. People who were there at the time told me the crews expected they would reach their targets but would not return even if there was anywhere to return to .
Wow!!! Hearing Eisenhower for the first time in my life. And talking to Kennedy!? There once was a time America was united.. what a freaking awesome awesome awesome series!
At the time, a lot of the thought's regarding nuclear weapons were that A) They weren't that bad and B) that the Americans could get their licks in first meaning that there wouldn't be a retaliation for them to worry about. In some ways, the WWII Vets were still thinking that it would be like a WWII bombing campaign which they knew how to fight. They spoke from a position of realistic ignorance.
Absolutely wonderful series. My Dad was in the US Navy, there with the blockade. You have definitely captured the intensity that he spoke about. Thank you
Your mind a essentially made up, then the victorious commander of Overlord tells you that he agrees with you? That takes an amazing calmness of mind to then still keep your options open. Incredible.
lol "Peter, Paul and Mary" (They also sang the song "Puff the Magic Dragon") That is why these videos are so much better than a straight history lesson.
I cannot say enough this is perfection. The goosebumps, the detail, the clips, the pictures, the numbers, everything is perfect. Maybe I'm bias because I'm American but man, love it.
At 5.5 years old at the time I remember the tension it caused in the home even though I could not grasp the gravity of it. The result of these events certainly impacted my life for many years afterward.
These vids are so short, yet so jam packed with info that I have to watch them twice. It's like 30 mins worth in just 10 mins, super value, but I wish they lasted a bit longer. Did the climb down of both sides, to threaten the other with MRBs, only instigate furthering their MAD designs, of ICBMs?
I was on a flight line in Louisiana on that Monday night on the way to South Florida. We listened to the TV broadcast. We had a bunch of F100 fighter bombers on the way. As a kid of 21 or so , we were ready for a fight but after reflection later on I am glad things didn't get out of hand. The public today really doesn't know how close we came.
Like your 5th grade teacher I was a military dependent . I was eight in' 62 so I'm put in mind of my lifetime of watching US/Russia relations. It begins wth the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 . I was a tot, a military dependent, and legally, technically., diplomatically, "a babe in arms" on my mothers passport. She had polical refugee stasis and visas to enter Belgium ... provided we could get there before the E. Germans and the Russians got to Frankfort, where we lived, I suppose. Everyday, I pulled my red wagon with two suitcases about five blocks to the Belgium Consulate as she walked our big white dog. The way was past serveral different Consulates. I liked the guards in their fancy uniforms. The Marines in thier dress blues and the Poles with their square hats were my favorites. My Mom didn't have the heart to tell me our dog was not coming. All the guards were kind towards us for the first few days. I figured it was because I was an airman's son acting like a good soldier. Later in life I realized we made them melancholy reminding them all of their loved ones. My little game was to salute just one of them each day. Some saluted back, others gave me a wink, at least until the day they all were dressed for battle carrying automatic weapons and a few Consulates had big armored vehicles just inside their open gates .I remember very clearly deciding I did not want to play with any of them anymore ... ever. I saw Nikita Khrushchev pound his shoe on the desk at the UN on Huntly- Brinkley.. By 8 we were back in the States living at the second closest B-52 base to Moscow (over the Pole) for the Cuban Missile Crisis . We military brats knew something was up as one day a KC-97, a four engine prop tanker, labored over our school, way too low, A crash was our first thought, but as it labored and gained altitude. it took a second but it dawned on us that we had just never seen a fully loaded one take off before because for normal exercises they were never fully topped off. So what is this all about we wondered.. As it dawned on me that it was NOT just an alert, my eyes went to pretty little Danni, who upon seeing my eyes suddenly mirrored my terror given that her Daddy was a B-52 pilot. I realized years later that we never did those duck and cover drills as SAC brats because they were an upsetting sick joke and we knew it, I'm sure. I could go on but my point is that I've heard all it before. The only new twist with the President meeting with Putin is the leaders being all DYI, media folksy instead of McNamara or Kissenger doing all the public talking. We wave the flag and talk high values and the Russians say "We invented values." I'm telling this because of Lindie's teacher being a Cold War dependent AND how in watching these episodes it's made to seem people did not know what was up. By time there was the TV show with the 8X12 colored glossy photos @ arrows on them and paragraph on the back, me, my family, the kids at school, at least the other military brats, had seen this coming for at lease one long week, already, and knew what to expect..
Growing up in the Late 70's and Early 80's I know what you mean about growing up under the threat of Nuclear War. With movies like Threads, the effects were definitely brought home to us. It made the 90's a weird time in pop culture and explains why we have so many Zombie movies now.
"Threads" was the one that really stuck with me. "Testament" was another one that was horrific without ever showing a nuclear blast or really much of any kind of destruction. "The Day After" was the one that got all the hype and attention, but it had a somewhat positive ending unlike the other two. Made us all kind of fatalistic about the whole thing, as opposed to our parents' generation who were the first ones to experience the threat of worldwide anihilation and were probably a lot more scared that we ever were.
...as I have not modified my YT tek since the last refit of the New Jersey I have lost the ability to UA-cam channelate I'll drop a legend right here. Kennedy, what a boss. His t.v. appearances were mesmerizing since 1960. When things changed the world wept for a year then the BEATLES.
I live in S.A. Texas and have heard for years that there was strong fear that we would be a target during the crisis since this is Military City USA and one of the closer major sites to Cuba. I would love to see interviews with people about how panicked they were after Kennedy's address
I was in the second grade when that happen. We lived in a 20000 persin town in s e. Ohio. My parents moved me and my brother to my grand father's farm about 39 miles away for the duration of crisis
My grandfather was part of the Cuban Blockade as he served as an NCO on the USS Lake Champlain, an essex class aircraft carrier engaged in anti submarine operatoins. He was on the ship during the retreving of commander Alan Sheperds space capsule, during the visit to jamacia to celebrate the islands independence and most importantly the cuban blockade.
Enjoying this series (and your other work) very much. A bit disappointed that Oleg Penkovsky didn't get a mention. Many sources credit the information he passed to the US via SIS as being of great importance to Kennedy's handling of the missile crisis. Would have been interested knowing more about how this fitted into the overall situation. But on the other hand you can't include everything and still keep the episodes to 10-15 minutes (a format which works very nicely). [Maybe a series on Cold War spies in the future?] Keep up the good work.
An egineer I worked with for many years was at Logan Airport waiting for a flight to one of our customers. He saw B-52's on the tarmac with armed soldiers guarding them, those planes had nukes on board, they were being disbursed to prevent them from being taken out by attacks on air force bases. I was in HS at the time and remember watching Kenney's speech, I also remember how scared everyone was.
Thanks for sharing, sadly in such a nuclearized world the chances of something going disastrously wrong are uncomfortably high. Hopefully future generations will be able to find a solution.
Owww crap. I watched this serie thinking all was already published. And now I'm stuck with an intensive suspense. Thank you for this great work. My only regret is about starfish prime, in your prelude : you should have talked about the fact it was close to destroy earth's magnetosphere, destroying in fact any life on earth. An example of how close we got to total annihilation even without a war running.
It's interesting that you mention living "in constant fear of nuclear war." Being only 3 years older than myself (I was born in 1970) I don't remember growing up with that fear and like you, I went through the end of the Cold War, the collapse of the Soviet Union and the bringing down of the Berlin Wall. It may have been that I was in the States, or that I lived in the Upstate NY region, or perhaps even that I was blessed to have been part of a family of people who had great faith, but I can honestly say that was never a fear I lived with, to my memory. I point that out only as an interesting way of looking at the different ways people's lives can go.
Hi sir Congratulation for 200k subscriber for your channel. I had never missed your world war2 videos and also ongoing cuban missile crisis series.. Your way of narration is so good.. And also spartacus narration is also good.. Keep going sir.. 👍 Thanks for educating about history...🙏
That 'real time' series of the attack on Pearl Harbor is a fascinating style of narrative even for those of us pretty familiar with the history since childhood. I grew up in a Texas Panhandle city in range of those missiles with both a SAC base and a "secret". nuclear weapons assembly plant that every teenager in town seemed to be aware of. We had a neighbor who bad a bomb shelter built following this event whom I will refer to by the alternate name of the "Smiths". My mom was of the opinion that we should befriend the 'Smiths' in hopes that they might invite us to share their bomb shelter should the worst case scenario come to pass. I remember my dad's declining the notion and saying that "a month or more in a 10 ft square concrete bunker with the 'Smiths' would be worse than any slow death of radiation poisoning".
The end of a conversation at 3:50 makes me wonder if that's where Indy took inspiration for his "Mkay *sound of a phone put down*" at the beginning of many videos about WW2. Also, for a better pronunciation of Khrushchev's second name (just if you wonder how it sounds in Russian) you can take sounds in square brackets from their respective words below: 1) [H]ello 2) [roo]t 3) [sh]it 4) [Of] (stressed vowel here). Also, I gotta say, what a Braille-ient tie!
I was born in Nov 1964. Hard to believe so many history turning events held the future of the world in a death spiral, barely averted as our parents lives their lives, created families, unaware that it could have ended in giant plumes of smoke
Award Winning quality short docs, but YT doesn't value this, b/c history can make us think carefully and conscientiously. Keep up the good work. I'll support $$ when I can. Things are very tight now.
"....in which even the fruits of victory would be ashes in our mouth..." That really does drive the point home. Remember when part of being a president was being a skilled orator?
Yes, it was. Now it is difficult to understand that even in the United States, TV was a rarity. Only a third of Americans heard the President's speech. Imagine it as a speech exclusively on the Internet by Bush Jr. at 9-11-2001. However, Kennedy was the first "television President". He won thanks to the first ever televised debate. I think that's why he chose it.
Am I the only one to say myself, at every decision made "No why are you doing this" and seing the escalation pattern. Well of course it's easy to judge now behind a screen, but, you get it...
I was not born until 1966 so I do not recall this crisis. I remember when Afghanistan was invaded in December of 1979 and the Korean civilian airliner was shot down in 1983 while I was a senior in high school.
I remember my ex-wife telling me that her father at this time was in the Air Force based in Minnesota. The military was on high alert and my mother-in-law was telling my ex-wife to shut up when she complained about Kennedy's news broadcast cutting in on regular programming at the time. "Don't you realize the world might be coming to an end?" she asked my ex-wife. However, my ex-wife still remained more upset they cancelled "Rocky and Bullwinkle". Hey, she was only 6 or 7 years old at the time. And on a similar note the creator of "Rocky and Bullwinkle" tried to visit the White House about this time, demanding as a joke complete autonomy for "Moosylvania". Instead he was ruffed up by White House secret service, thrown off the grounds. He had no way of knowing the Cuban Missile Crisis had just begun that very day.
@@joshuacondell1686 I agree with you on Vietnam. No so sure about Cuba. The Communist authoritarian rule of Castro didn't do Cuba any favors. I'm not sure Cuba was any better off under Castro than it was under Batista. Cuba is 90 miles off the Florida coast. Of course the US government is going to take an interest in what goes on there. I think Cuba would have been better off with a pro-western government. US economic assistance would have meant a lot to the welfare of the country.
@@joshuacondell1686 Cuba was certainly a Spanish colony, and Spain exploited the colony just like every imperial country exploited their colonies of resources. I have met a number of people who have gotten the hell out of Cuba, even in recent years, who would dispute your rosy description of the country's "healthcare, education, social services and human development". And, yes, the US blockaded and imposed embargoes and economic sanctions. Do you think there would be no consequences to allowing nuclear weapons to be set up 90 miles off the US coast? I imagine that left a pretty bad taste in the mouths of people in our government. And don't forget that many of those sanctions were pushed by Cubans now living in the US.
@@joshuacondell1686 The deployment of missiles in 1962 was by the USSR, not by Cuba, per se. That deployment was occurred by the USSR was perhaps in response to the presence of US missiles in Turkey, but not to the invasion of Cuba. But it was clearly a threat to the US. I was about 2 at the time, but I have not found myself in the years since in favor of US intervention in Central and South America. Cuba hasn't been invaded because Kennedy promised we would not do so after the Cuban Missile Crisis. But, frankly, I don't recall the US "invading" Central and South American countries to any great degree. The CIA certainly intervened in sovereign nations on occasions, which I would not agree with. The overthrow of Allende in particular was abominable. But the Monroe Doctrine, rightly or wrongly, has been around since 1823.
@@joshuacondell1686 So 2 tiny islands and a country run by a corrupt drug lord qualifies as "the U.S. has invaded or intervened in just about every country in the Americas"? A bit of exaggeration, don't you think? That said, it was US policy to oppose the rise of any Communist regime in the Western Hemisphere. I disagree with that policy, but the US military and government has often been led by anti-Communist right-wing nuts. The invasion of Grenada was stupid - just a muscle flex by Reagan and his right wing cabal. GHWB, the former CIA chief, ordered the arrest of Noriega as a drug trafficker. Agree or not, the US would not allow someone of that ilk to control the Panama Canal. And he was likely involved in the Iran-Contra scandal. The Dominican Republic problem was in 1965 to prevent the rise of a pro-Communist, pro-Castro regime. Stupid, but the US was ragingly anti-Communist at the time. Still, your point is a stretch.
Regarding the Kennedy TV address on the crisis, I noticed the most common footage available is the one showing the camera at the side of Kennedy like what is presented here. But in all indications, there should be a version of the address that shows him directly addressing the camera in front. Does that particular footage not exist anymore? Just curious.
Yeah, the cold war was a scary period, inconceivable by people who did not live through it. Thank God it is over. Let's keep it that way. We lived a few miles from a military airbase, and knew that if shit hit the fan, we were going to be toast in minutes.
I joined the US Army in the late 80's and we had a very fatalistic attitude about the whole thing. Training for it was scary of course, but at the same time we'd all grown up with it, lived in the shadow of the possibility of total anihilation, saw movies like "Testament" and "The Day After", and felt like if it was going to happen that it would be over quickly and the whole world would be obliterated so why worry? Somehow the chaotic time that came after the USSR collapsed managed to be scarier because it was so much less predictable.
This is the eighth of fourteen episodes following the Cuban Missile Crisis day-by-day. We'll be back tomorrow, and the day after that until the end of the crisis. All the episodes are already available to the TimeGhost Army on www.patreon.com/timeghosthistory or timeghost.tv. By joining us there you will also support the creation of these independent, realtime historical documentary series!
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It is objectively true that the authoritarian regimes we cover in our series, be they far-left or far-right, were willing to use systematic oppression, violence, and murder to create or maintain their preferred system of governance. From the perspective of human rights, democracy, and plain decency, this is clearly unacceptable. Now, that is, of course, a morally absolute statement based on 21st-century morals and ethics. Therefore, in our content, we refrain from any such judgement and just tell the story as it is. We’re concerned only with the past. We don’t take sides, and we don’t decide which side deserves more blame than the other.
Our comment section, however, is not taking place in the past. Our comments are made in the present-day, and political comments such as the ones we don’t allow are promoting a present-day agenda by whitewashing, diminishing, or even justifying the crimes of a past regime. We will not allow for such rhetoric in the same way most democratic European countries (where we create this content) won’t allow for such rhetoric. As historians, our very work depends on this so that we can continue interrogating the past free from political influence.
Where's the JFK address?
@@ivvan497 I think they're talking about this : ua-cam.com/video/8BONDwWYCZc/v-deo.html
I was old enough to be living in fear of nuclear war during the last decade of the cold war and it was a truly terrifying experience that still lingers from time to time to this day. I caught news snippets, I saw the BBC film 'Threads' at school (which was horrendously distressing for that age group) and heard all of the playground gossip about the situation. One morning, when I was about 8 or 9, some idiot accidentally set off the air raid sirens all over my town - not just one siren, but many all echoing together - the sound of impending atomic death. I vividly remember the sinking feeling inside, like life itself was draining away and how quickly my little legs turned to jelly. I also remember screaming at my parents that we had to get to the nearest bunker (which I knew to be in the nearest city) and that we only had 4 minutes to get there - although in hindsight it was pointless as it was a government only bunker, it was 12 miles away and my parents didn't even have a car! I can't imagine what it would have been like to live through the Cuban Missile Crisis with that knowledge!
By far one of your best documentary mini-series yet Indy and team. I'll just go 'duck and cover' in the corner!
Alright, but define "Integral Nationalism".
Henrik G Integral nationalism (French: nationalisme intégral) is a type of nationalism that originated in 19th-century France, was theorized by Charles Maurras and mainly expressed in the ultra-royalist circles of Action Française. The doctrine is also called Maurrassism.
It is staunchly antisemitic, chauvinist, and authoritarian. Maurassian thought was the basis of much of the doctrines that developed into Fascism in Italy, and Naziism in Germany. Today, it is still present in France, although the Monarchist ideas are no longer part of the ideology. The new ultra Nationalist movements in Europe and the US with elements of white supremacy also follow the ideas enshrined in Integral Nationalism.
These episodes should be shown in every north american highschool history class, they are so thorough, yet quick and to the point. Great for keeping uninterested teenagers engaged.
Now that’s prime time television
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Today it would be buried on cable with Love Island or The Bachelor not even considered being preempted.
Lol
There was only 3 channels and The President was on all of them.
Interruupting Gunsmoke.
We not only lived in constant fear of nuclear war, but in the assumption that it was inevitable.
Today, we assume the risk is gone. It is not. It is greatly reduced, but it is still there.
Realistically however, any large scale, cold war era level of nuclear war is however gone.
Sure, India and Pakistan might have a limited exchange, sure, north korea could try to fire one off to somewhere. But the threat of mass death for the general population is very, very low. To an almost minimal level.
Russia isnt the same place it was during the cold war, the infrastructure for communication today is wastly different and heads of states can communicate within a moments notice.
The guessing game is largerly gone, not entierly of course, but today the risk is so low theres no need to run around scaring people up. Yes theres still nukes, but no, the mentality of using them is much, much reduced.
Here's my spin on it: ua-cam.com/video/EoSS2aJKLGM/v-deo.html
did you? I didn't
Boy, were you right!
I think Indy here should have his own TV series.I bet he would absolutely nail the Napoleonic Wars.
Are both lava lamps dead because the crisis is seriously heating up?
If it was heating up then the wax would be stuck at the top
They appear dead because they are both still too cold. If you look closely, you can see near the end of the video that the left one has almost warmed up enough to form it's first bubble. I'm choosing to believe that this is a clever visual metaphor for the Cold War heating up and not just because Indy and crew couldn't be arsed to turn these things on several minutes in advance of recording.
@@brotlowskyrgseg1018 I also like how Indy and the room become more disheveled with each episode, that was already a nice touch in the original.
@@AlexVardr Oh, when this series happened two years ago. He did the same thing and becomes increasingly distraught
Cold collar machines.
This series is so well done I'm getting chills from an event 60 years ago. I can't imagine how intense this must've been for everyone in those meetings
Same here. Indy and his team are wonderful. I am grateful I can understand what my dad tried to convey me so many times.
@@markotrieste :)
Watch the 1995 movie "13 days"
It's about the Cuban missile crisis
Hearing that speech by Kennedy live must have been absolutely terrifying. I'm greatful I didn't have to live through that.
I was 10, when this crisis developed. Hearing Kennedy’s speech again, just as I heard it again when you did an earlier series on the Cuban Missile Crisis, brings tears to my eyes!
I was ten as well. It all came back with a rush as Kennedy started to speak. I can still remember being glued to the TV with my parents, thinking "this could be it". This was far away in the outer suburbs of Melbourne, Australia and we were still shitting bricks.
Yessir
Thanks for sharing your stories, can't imagine how powerful these memories must be for you.
We hope to keep these events alive for future generations to learn from!
"So long mom, I'm off to drop the bomb
So don't wait up for me.
But while you swelter, down there in you shelter,
You can watch me, on your TV."
- Tom Lehrer, 1967
What people think the Cold War was about *Capitalism vs Communism*
What it was really about
*Defending our precious bodily fluids*
LOL... Here we go with the Dr. Strangelove references again :D
Have you ever hear of...FLUORIFICATION!?
i see youve learned to love the bomb.
I have plenty of pure American water stored up. And a good supply of vodka. Because those commies wouldn't dare adulterate vodka.
Purity Of Essence. POE was Burpelson AFB's launch code.
The Kennedy & Eisenhower conversation is very interesting.
You guys deserve an award for all the series that you produce. The amount of details and the way it is presented by indy is just awe worthy.
Thanks Amulya! Really appreciate the kind words.
"THE END" with glorious fanfares after the speech...
Superb job guys, congrats and much appreciated.
Thanks Canthama, glad the hard work was worth it. Shout out to our TimeGhost Army on Patreon, without them we wouldn't be able to make stuff like this.
My Dad was stationed at the Navy base in Key West in 1960, so he, my mom, and my five siblings (I was not in the picture yet) had a front row seat to the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Those recordings gives whole different level to these videos. Its like, more personal, or something like that... And I am in awe how confident Eisenhower was when he told JFK that Soviets will not use the nukes.... How confident he is in his judgement about such frightening topic... What a legend.
Ike had dealt with all of the Soviets during WW2, including Zhukov and Stalin himself. If he figured that Stalin wouldn't use nukes, then the odds of Nikita K. doing it were pretty low. Especially over Cuba...Berlin, maybe. That's from a time when Democrats and Republicans would consult one another during a national crisis. Shocking, isn't it??
i was 5 at the time its one of my earliest memories i was aware of a general anxiety among adults.
We spent 3 months in my history class in my last year learning about the missile crisis. Ive learned more in these episodes.
Different mediums work for different people, we're glad to have helped you expand your knowledge!
I just think it’s cool that Kennedy sought out Eisenhower’s advice multiple times throughout this endeavor. I just don’t think that’s something Presidents would do now. Especially since they’re from different parties.
I bet Eisenhower was quite a respected figure, from wwii. Though, I don't know how he dealt with his US presidency. I hope he was better president than Ulysse Grant.
@L C - Dwight Eisenhower was a mixed bag. He did a lot of good at home (if you like highways and new deal social programs), and a lot of bad abroad (if you don't like interventionist foreign policy and regime changing coups).
Why would anyone in his right mind seek any advise from the likes of Clinton, Bush, Obama...?
@@MacakPodSIjemom I mean Clinton's advice would be to make sure it doesn't get on her dress
Will you guys be doing another series like this one on the '89 Eastern European revolutions and the 6 day war?
That would be awesome
If they make a six-day war series the yt comments will be in a state of a nuclear war XD
@El Míle very true
El Míle that’s part of the fun
Yeah, I don't think they're going to touch anything going on in the post-war Middle East... The collapse of the Iron Curtain could be an interesting mini-series. I was in the US Army at the time, and after we'd spent years training for "The Big One", expecting a major war with the USSR and its allies, to see the whole thing fall apart in a hot minute was kind of surreal. Watching the Berlin Wall being knocked down, we just looked at each other and said "WTF.... what now???" It was a very interesting time to be alive and actively involved in history.
Khrushchev: We have hammer. So many hammer, in fact at the moment we're not sure where they all are. 🔨🔨🔨
Someone really fell behind on their sickle quota though
I recall a congressional inquiry about those $700 hammers that the U.S. was buying too
Haha I thought Khrushchev was a shoemaker by trade
Back in 1982, I was in my freshman year of college and got to attend a symposium on the Cuban Missile Crisis at the JFK Library (my foreign relations professor made arrangements for our attendance). In attendance were many of the key figures from the Kennedy Administration, including George Ball, Walt Rostow, Ted Sorensen, and McGeorge Bundy. I don't recall if Robert McNamara was there. I was born after the Crisis, and didn't understand the full gravity of the event until I attended the symposium. After the event, Walt Rostow came up to me and a group of my classmates to tell us that he was glad they were able to get a peaceful resolution for future generations like us. Being 18 years old, I didn't fully appreciate the chance I had to meet with so many key figures in history. Nevertheless, I haven't forgotten the event.
That must have been a very interesting time to attend a talk like that as well. Reagan had just been elected and was beginning to ratchet up the pressure on the Soviets that led to their eventual collapse. Did it seem like their experience during the missile crisis affected their views of the Cold War in the 1980's?
@@Raskolnikov70 I really can't say. I do recall that most of the panelists were not enthusiastic about Reagan, since they were generally Democrats and came from a different school of thought on the Cold War (Realpolitik/Detente as opposed to the staunch anti-Communism of Reagan). I will say that in 1982, I wouldn't have believed you if you'd told me that by the end of the decade, the Berlin Wall would be torn down.
@@fredaaron762 My hazy memories of the time (I was a teenager throughout most of Reagan's term) are of the Cuban Missile Crisis being brought up as a response to the perceived heating up of the cold war. There seemed to be a lot of people saying 'we came to the brink of anihilation once already, don't do this again!" about Reagans policies. In hindsight, outspending the Soviets turned out to be an effective strategy for defeating them, but at the time it seemed to me that there were people who thought it was being reckless. Less for us younger people maybe, because we didn't remember Cuba and had lived with the nuclear threat our whole lives without any kind of major incident.
Said this before in other places, but by 1989 I'd already joined the US Army, had been through all kinds of training for "the Big One" and we had a very fatalistic attitude towards it. Kind of felt that if we went to war with the USSR it would just mean the end of everything so why worry about it. The time immediately after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Union was a lot scarier for us simply becuase we'd gone from a known bi-polar stalemate situation to a very chaotic world with lots of players. Something that doesn't seem to be remembered these days.
Khrushchev realising he's not deterred the Americans but provoked them: "This was the one thing we didn't want to happen."
In 1962 as a 12 year old schoolboy at morning assembly the Head master prayed for deliverance from the threat of war. 7years later as an 19 year old airman on my first operational posting to R.A.F. Scampton a V bomber station just outside Lincoln I realized just how close the world had come to Nuclear war .At the time as part of Britain's nuclear deterrent Scamptonn had 3 Vulcan bombers armed with Blue steel nuclear missiles on permanent standby ready to be in the air within 3 minutes .However during the crisis all 3 Vulcan squadrones were fully armed and dispersed to satellite airfields. People who were there at the time told me the crews expected they would reach their targets but would not return even if there was anywhere to return to .
Wow!!! Hearing Eisenhower for the first time in my life. And talking to Kennedy!? There once was a time America was united.. what a freaking awesome awesome awesome series!
Particularly well-paced and dramatically presented. Adding context from someone who was there was brilliant.
Oh Astrid, you left us the best tie for last. That is a beauty. 4/5
"President John F Kennedy has a big-"
Whoa there
"hammer..."
Phew
Oh my!
Just wait until Lyndon B Johnson- he didn't bother so much with euphemisms
only matched by Marilyn Monroe's anvil
It's surprising how casual Kennedy and Eisenhower are about the risk of nuclear war
WW2 vets with nerves of steel
That's because they wouldn't be the ones dying anyway, it would be the hundred of millions of civilians who would.
@@ASpectrethatishauntingEurope Hey, I thought James Bond got rid of SPECTRE 😉
@@ASpectrethatishauntingEurope If you think you're safe from nukes, you're a fool
At the time, a lot of the thought's regarding nuclear weapons were that A) They weren't that bad and B) that the Americans could get their licks in first meaning that there wouldn't be a retaliation for them to worry about. In some ways, the WWII Vets were still thinking that it would be like a WWII bombing campaign which they knew how to fight. They spoke from a position of realistic ignorance.
'If I had a hammer, I would not hesitate'
Oh wait, I'm confusing this with if I had a rocket launcher
"If I had a hammer, this would look like a nail"
Oh wait, that's not right either.
‘If i had a hammer, then i’d be a dirty communist’.
andypants 1000: Bruce Cockburn, one of my all-time favorites. I was backstage with him at Brock.
And if I had a rocket launcher I would retaliate.
@@UrWifiIsSlow That is truly sickle...
the soviet version is "if i had a hammer and a sickle"
Absolutely wonderful series. My Dad was in the US Navy, there with the blockade. You have definitely captured the intensity that he spoke about. Thank you
Thanks for sharing, we're glad to have been able to bring it to life the same way your Dad did!
Your mind a essentially made up, then the victorious commander of Overlord tells you that he agrees with you? That takes an amazing calmness of mind to then still keep your options open. Incredible.
I think it's really worth noting Kennedy calls Eisenhower 'General' rather than president. It's a sign of respect.
I remember what a scary scary time this was
lol "Peter, Paul and Mary" (They also sang the song "Puff the Magic Dragon") That is why these videos are so much better than a straight history lesson.
I cannot say enough this is perfection. The goosebumps, the detail, the clips, the pictures, the numbers, everything is perfect. Maybe I'm bias because I'm American but man, love it.
This time neither lava lamp is active. You have to warm them up for at least an hour beforehand, or this is what you get.
It gets better with every episode
Thanks!
God Kennedy was such an eloquent and considerate speaker.
At 5.5 years old at the time I remember the tension it caused in the home even though I could not grasp the gravity of it. The result of these events certainly impacted my life for many years afterward.
These vids are so short, yet so jam packed with info that I have to watch them twice. It's like 30 mins worth in just 10 mins, super value, but I wish they lasted a bit longer. Did the climb down of both sides, to threaten the other with MRBs, only instigate furthering their MAD designs, of ICBMs?
"Good Night and Good Luck".........Thank you Edward R. (Indy) Morrow.
I was on a flight line in Louisiana on that Monday night on the way to South Florida. We listened to the TV broadcast. We had a bunch of F100 fighter bombers on the way. As a kid of 21 or so , we were ready for a fight but after reflection later on I am glad things didn't get out of hand. The public today really doesn't know how close we came.
When all this was going on, my dad brought us into the shelter. We emerged in 1978 to a different world. Sometimes I still wish I was in that shelter.
Like your 5th grade teacher I was a military dependent . I was eight in' 62 so I'm put in mind of my lifetime of watching US/Russia relations. It begins wth the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 . I was a tot, a military dependent, and legally, technically., diplomatically, "a babe in arms" on my mothers passport. She had polical refugee stasis and visas to enter Belgium ... provided we could get there before the E. Germans and the Russians got to Frankfort, where we lived, I suppose. Everyday, I pulled my red wagon with two suitcases about five blocks to the Belgium Consulate as she walked our big white dog. The way was past serveral different Consulates. I liked the guards in their fancy uniforms. The Marines in thier dress blues and the Poles with their square hats were my favorites. My Mom didn't have the heart to tell me our dog was not coming. All the guards were kind towards us for the first few days. I figured it was because I was an airman's son acting like a good soldier. Later in life I realized we made them melancholy reminding them all of their loved ones. My little game was to salute just one of them each day. Some saluted back, others gave me a wink, at least until the day they all were dressed for battle carrying automatic weapons and a few Consulates had big armored vehicles just inside their open gates .I remember very clearly deciding I did not want to play with any of them anymore ... ever.
I saw Nikita Khrushchev pound his shoe on the desk at the UN on Huntly- Brinkley..
By 8 we were back in the States living at the second closest B-52 base to Moscow (over the Pole) for the Cuban Missile Crisis . We military brats knew something was up as one day a KC-97, a four engine prop tanker, labored over our school, way too low, A crash was our first thought, but as it labored and gained altitude. it took a second but it dawned on us that we had just never seen a fully loaded one take off before because for normal exercises they were never fully topped off. So what is this all about we wondered.. As it dawned on me that it was NOT just an alert, my eyes went to pretty little Danni, who upon seeing my eyes suddenly mirrored my terror given that her Daddy was a B-52 pilot. I realized years later that we never did those duck and cover drills as SAC brats because they were an upsetting sick joke and we knew it, I'm sure.
I could go on but my point is that I've heard all it before. The only new twist with the President meeting with Putin is the leaders being all DYI, media folksy instead of McNamara or Kissenger doing all the public talking. We wave the flag and talk high values and the Russians say "We invented values."
I'm telling this because of Lindie's teacher being a Cold War dependent AND how in watching these episodes it's made to seem people did not know what was up. By time there was the TV show with the 8X12 colored glossy photos @ arrows on them and paragraph on the back, me, my family, the kids at school, at least the other military brats, had seen this coming for at lease one long week, already, and knew what to expect..
Growing up in the Late 70's and Early 80's I know what you mean about growing up under the threat of Nuclear War. With movies like Threads, the effects were definitely brought home to us.
It made the 90's a weird time in pop culture and explains why we have so many Zombie movies now.
"Threads" was the one that really stuck with me. "Testament" was another one that was horrific without ever showing a nuclear blast or really much of any kind of destruction. "The Day After" was the one that got all the hype and attention, but it had a somewhat positive ending unlike the other two. Made us all kind of fatalistic about the whole thing, as opposed to our parents' generation who were the first ones to experience the threat of worldwide anihilation and were probably a lot more scared that we ever were.
...as I have not modified my YT tek since the last refit of the New Jersey I have lost the ability to UA-cam channelate I'll drop a legend right here.
Kennedy, what a boss. His t.v. appearances were mesmerizing since 1960. When things changed the world wept for a year then the BEATLES.
I live in S.A. Texas and have heard for years that there was strong fear that we would be a target during the crisis since this is Military City USA and one of the closer major sites to Cuba. I would love to see interviews with people about how panicked they were after Kennedy's address
Just about every place I have lived has thought it was "very high" on the list of nuclear targets.
If the multiple warhead icbm's start dropping their payload over texas, i don't think the specific targets really matter that much.
I grew up a few miles away from a bunch of Titan II missile silos, so yeah... know that feeling :(
I was in the second grade when that happen. We lived in a 20000 persin town in s e. Ohio. My parents moved me and my brother to my grand father's farm about 39 miles away for the duration of crisis
The last time I was this quick Austria-Hungary was still a thing
Edit: My Homeland
Austria? Or Hungary? *Confused look*
if you were born in Austria-Hungary you must be quite old
salutations to you
@@tancreddehauteville9983 Both. Or rather the territory of the Habsburg Monarchy.
My old enemy
@@aarondemiri486 LoL about 100 years old
These videos are just getting better and better. Thank you!
Thanks Paul! We appreciate the support :)
I can't stop watching these but they are bringing back the fears of that time on top of the concerns of this day.
Thank you for all the knowledge you keep going
Thanks Jessie, we're glad you enjoyed it!
My grandfather was part of the Cuban Blockade as he served as an NCO on the USS Lake Champlain, an essex class aircraft carrier engaged in anti submarine operatoins. He was on the ship during the retreving of commander Alan Sheperds space capsule, during the visit to jamacia to celebrate the islands independence and most importantly the cuban blockade.
Wow Adam! Thanks for sharing, that's quite some history your grandfather lived through.
Enjoying this series (and your other work) very much.
A bit disappointed that Oleg Penkovsky didn't get a mention. Many sources credit the information he passed to the US via SIS as being of great importance to Kennedy's handling of the missile crisis. Would have been interested knowing more about how this fitted into the overall situation.
But on the other hand you can't include everything and still keep the episodes to 10-15 minutes (a format which works very nicely). [Maybe a series on Cold War spies in the future?]
Keep up the good work.
An egineer I worked with for many years was at Logan Airport waiting for a flight to one of our customers. He saw B-52's on the tarmac with armed soldiers guarding them, those planes had nukes on board, they were being disbursed to prevent them from being taken out by attacks on air force bases.
I was in HS at the time and remember watching Kenney's speech, I also remember how scared everyone was.
Thanks for sharing, sadly in such a nuclearized world the chances of something going disastrously wrong are uncomfortably high. Hopefully future generations will be able to find a solution.
Owww crap. I watched this serie thinking all was already published. And now I'm stuck with an intensive suspense.
Thank you for this great work. My only regret is about starfish prime, in your prelude : you should have talked about the fact it was close to destroy earth's magnetosphere, destroying in fact any life on earth. An example of how close we got to total annihilation even without a war running.
Thanks for the support L C! Hope you enjoyed the ending.
It's interesting that you mention living "in constant fear of nuclear war." Being only 3 years older than myself (I was born in 1970) I don't remember growing up with that fear and like you, I went through the end of the Cold War, the collapse of the Soviet Union and the bringing down of the Berlin Wall. It may have been that I was in the States, or that I lived in the Upstate NY region, or perhaps even that I was blessed to have been part of a family of people who had great faith, but I can honestly say that was never a fear I lived with, to my memory. I point that out only as an interesting way of looking at the different ways people's lives can go.
6:41 Is this a brochure from Mercedes as
decoration? Nice.
PS. Love the show.
Hi sir
Congratulation for 200k subscriber for your channel.
I had never missed your world war2 videos and also ongoing cuban missile crisis series..
Your way of narration is so good..
And also spartacus narration is also good..
Keep going sir..
👍
Thanks for educating about history...🙏
That 'real time' series of the attack on Pearl Harbor is a fascinating style of narrative even for those of us pretty familiar with the history since childhood.
I grew up in a Texas Panhandle city in range of those missiles with both a SAC base and a "secret". nuclear weapons assembly plant that every teenager in town seemed to be aware of. We had a neighbor who bad a bomb shelter built following this event whom I will refer to by the alternate name of the "Smiths". My mom was of the opinion that we should befriend the 'Smiths' in hopes that they might invite us to share their bomb shelter should the worst case scenario come to pass. I remember my dad's declining the notion and saying that "a month or more in a 10 ft square concrete bunker with the 'Smiths' would be worse than any slow death of radiation poisoning".
This is as an intense superb recollection of the crisis...damn well done!
Thank you!
The end of a conversation at 3:50 makes me wonder if that's where Indy took inspiration for his "Mkay *sound of a phone put down*" at the beginning of many videos about WW2.
Also, for a better pronunciation of Khrushchev's second name (just if you wonder how it sounds in Russian) you can take sounds in square brackets from their respective words below:
1) [H]ello
2) [roo]t
3) [sh]it
4) [Of] (stressed vowel here).
Also, I gotta say, what a Braille-ient tie!
Probably been mentioned already, but the intro music is about perfect!! Obviously the show is also excellent!
Thanks Tuathail!
Love to see you cover the Able Archer incident.
I was six when this happened. My parents were very scared after this address by JFK. Being a kid in first grade it was a stressful time.
I was born in Nov 1964. Hard to believe so many history turning events held the future of the world in a death spiral, barely averted as our parents lives their lives, created families, unaware that it could have ended in giant plumes of smoke
Thanks for sharing William, it's heartbreaking the amount of fear millions of people had to endure.
Loving this series.
Thanks Malcolm!
When is the 10 hour version of the intro getting released?
Award Winning quality short docs, but YT doesn't value this, b/c history can make us think carefully and conscientiously. Keep up the good work. I'll support $$ when I can. Things are very tight now.
Thanks for the support! Luckily we have our TimeGhost Army, thanks to their contributions we can afford to keep this going!
I was born 1948. When 1962 happened, I was living at Grand Forks AFB. I have stories to tell.
"....in which even the fruits of victory would be ashes in our mouth..."
That really does drive the point home.
Remember when part of being a president was being a skilled orator?
Ah...just what I need right now
God bless Indy and his team!.. 😘
Thanks Gerard!
Yes, it was. Now it is difficult to understand that even in the United States, TV was a rarity. Only a third of Americans heard the President's speech. Imagine it as a speech exclusively on the Internet by Bush Jr. at 9-11-2001. However, Kennedy was the first "television President". He won thanks to the first ever televised debate. I think that's why he chose it.
Am I the only one to say myself, at every decision made "No why are you doing this" and seing the escalation pattern. Well of course it's easy to judge now behind a screen, but, you get it...
Kennedy seemed like the perfect fit for solving this crisis. Both decisive yet open to change.
Excellent
Thank you!
I was not born until 1966 so I do not recall this crisis. I remember when Afghanistan was invaded in December of 1979 and the Korean civilian airliner was shot down in 1983 while I was a senior in high school.
Congrats on the 200k subs milestone guys.
Sorry for the late reply, but thanks :)
On to 250k!!
I remember my ex-wife telling me that her father at this time was in the Air Force based in Minnesota. The military was on high alert and my mother-in-law was telling my ex-wife to shut up when she complained about Kennedy's news broadcast cutting in on regular programming at the time. "Don't you realize the world might be coming to an end?" she asked my ex-wife. However, my ex-wife still remained more upset they cancelled "Rocky and Bullwinkle". Hey, she was only 6 or 7 years old at the time.
And on a similar note the creator of "Rocky and Bullwinkle" tried to visit the White House about this time, demanding as a joke complete autonomy for "Moosylvania". Instead he was ruffed up by White House secret service, thrown off the grounds. He had no way of knowing the Cuban Missile Crisis had just begun that very day.
You had me at "final phase of war "! 🙂😉
Great work, as always.
Thanks Ysha!
It's me the only one that adores the background music theme?
would it possible to release a cut of this series in one run when it’s complete? I
Good idea! If we would have more time...
@@TimeGhost Either way, keep up the good work!
"I kin see Putin's dacha from here!"
Come for the stupendous quality history content, stay for the lava lamps!
what is the ambient "looming" music from in the background?
Damn, televisions were $200 back then? Pretty expensive for the 60s.
Hard rain's gonna fall
Why is the blue-green lamp never moving? I swear I haven't seen it move all week!!
Loved that intro
George Ball is an underappreciated American hero. He also opposed the war in Vietnam.
@@joshuacondell1686 I agree with you on Vietnam. No so sure about Cuba. The Communist authoritarian rule of Castro didn't do Cuba any favors. I'm not sure Cuba was any better off under Castro than it was under Batista. Cuba is 90 miles off the Florida coast. Of course the US government is going to take an interest in what goes on there. I think Cuba would have been better off with a pro-western government. US economic assistance would have meant a lot to the welfare of the country.
@@joshuacondell1686 Cuba was certainly a Spanish colony, and Spain exploited the colony just like every imperial country exploited their colonies of resources. I have met a number of people who have gotten the hell out of Cuba, even in recent years, who would dispute your rosy description of the country's "healthcare, education, social services and human development". And, yes, the US blockaded and imposed embargoes and economic sanctions. Do you think there would be no consequences to allowing nuclear weapons to be set up 90 miles off the US coast? I imagine that left a pretty bad taste in the mouths of people in our government. And don't forget that many of those sanctions were pushed by Cubans now living in the US.
@@joshuacondell1686 The deployment of missiles in 1962 was by the USSR, not by Cuba, per se. That deployment was occurred by the USSR was perhaps in response to the presence of US missiles in Turkey, but not to the invasion of Cuba. But it was clearly a threat to the US. I was about 2 at the time, but I have not found myself in the years since in favor of US intervention in Central and South America. Cuba hasn't been invaded because Kennedy promised we would not do so after the Cuban Missile Crisis. But, frankly, I don't recall the US "invading" Central and South American countries to any great degree. The CIA certainly intervened in sovereign nations on occasions, which I would not agree with. The overthrow of Allende in particular was abominable. But the Monroe Doctrine, rightly or wrongly, has been around since 1823.
@@joshuacondell1686 So 2 tiny islands and a country run by a corrupt drug lord qualifies as "the U.S. has invaded or intervened in just about every country in the Americas"? A bit of exaggeration, don't you think? That said, it was US policy to oppose the rise of any Communist regime in the Western Hemisphere. I disagree with that policy, but the US military and government has often been led by anti-Communist right-wing nuts. The invasion of Grenada was stupid - just a muscle flex by Reagan and his right wing cabal. GHWB, the former CIA chief, ordered the arrest of Noriega as a drug trafficker. Agree or not, the US would not allow someone of that ilk to control the Panama Canal. And he was likely involved in the Iran-Contra scandal. The Dominican Republic problem was in 1965 to prevent the rise of a pro-Communist, pro-Castro regime. Stupid, but the US was ragingly anti-Communist at the time. Still, your point is a stretch.
@@joshuacondell1686 Now you are talking about ancient history, well before the Cuban Missile Crisis that is the subject of this video.
JFK says "Cuba" in public and "Cuber" in private
Lava Lamp Update;
At day 7 segment start no Lava Lamp activity.
At segment end activity indicated! Clearly this suggests something big for day 8!!!!!
Regarding the Kennedy TV address on the crisis, I noticed the most common footage available is the one showing the camera at the side of Kennedy like what is presented here. But in all indications, there should be a version of the address that shows him directly addressing the camera in front. Does that particular footage not exist anymore? Just curious.
What was the UK doing/opinion of the crisis around the time?
Yeah, the cold war was a scary period, inconceivable by people who did not live through it. Thank God it is over. Let's keep it that way. We lived a few miles from a military airbase, and knew that if shit hit the fan, we were going to be toast in minutes.
I joined the US Army in the late 80's and we had a very fatalistic attitude about the whole thing. Training for it was scary of course, but at the same time we'd all grown up with it, lived in the shadow of the possibility of total anihilation, saw movies like "Testament" and "The Day After", and felt like if it was going to happen that it would be over quickly and the whole world would be obliterated so why worry? Somehow the chaotic time that came after the USSR collapsed managed to be scarier because it was so much less predictable.
I recently worked at a RAF base in England. Outside of some of the housing areas were sealed steps to the cold war bunkers.
That green lava lamp is really bugging me. Why doesn't it do anything?
7:17 "in hospital".. Indy, have you forgotten your country?