Memorandum, October 29, 1962

Posted on May 28, 2014 by Melissa Kean

I was doing some research this afternoon and this caught me up short. It was written the day after Khrushchev agreed to remove the missiles from Cuba:

Cuban Missile crisis

 

 

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5 Responses to Memorandum, October 29, 1962

  1. C Kelly says:
    May 28, 2014 at 4:59 pm

    I will always remember attending the Rice – Texas game at Rice Stadium on October 27th. Very somber crowd – at least to a 12-year old football fan. BTW, the game ended in a 14-14 tie.

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  2. mjthannisch says:
    May 28, 2014 at 5:14 pm

    Brings back memories. Almost every new house we looked at had bomb shelter.

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  3. mjthannisch says:
    May 28, 2014 at 11:11 pm

    And someone older might want to confirm (I was almost 7 at the time). but it seems that the media liked to remind us that Cuba was less than 1000 miles from Houston.

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  4. Bill Peebles '70 says:
    May 29, 2014 at 10:58 am

    My strongest memory of that era was a picture of an anti-aircraft missile battery behind sandbags on the streets of Miami. Lots of people were very, very scared.

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  5. Philip Walters says:
    May 29, 2014 at 5:31 pm

    I was 7 then. I remember vividly that it was the first time I realized that there were things in the world that scared my parents. I remember my dad trying to explain what was going on. I remember him showing me where Cuba was on the world map we had in the hallway, and explaining how far the missiles could travel. He did not try to sugarcoat it, but he did not go into a lot of detail either.

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