MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Happy 50th Anniversary
By EmmaZahn on Mon, 10/22/2012 - 3:05pm |We still here!
The closest we ever came (publicly) to mutually-assured destruction. Where were you then?
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http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2012/10/cuban-missile-crisis.html
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I was 3 1/2 years old, living in Buffalo. I don't recall offering unsolicited advice on how President Kennedy might have handled the matter better, but I probably did.
You?
by AmericanDreamer on Mon, 10/22/2012 - 3:35pm
Just beginning 9th grade. My first real awareness of politics and world affairs. That may explain their abiding interest.
by EmmaZahn on Mon, 10/22/2012 - 3:38pm
I was 3 and 1/2, living in NS.
I suggested using Bobby as a trusted go-between.
Glad it all worked out.
by quinn esq on Mon, 10/22/2012 - 3:52pm
Well, fortunate for the President and our respective countrypersons that he had advice coming from the two of us. Those combined seven years of experience that went into our recommendations may have proven decisive in helping the President stand up to the majority who were suggesting he bomb first and ask questions later.
by AmericanDreamer on Mon, 10/22/2012 - 4:14pm
Of course I conveniently neglected to note that had the President by-passed the two of us and gone directly to the precocious and far more seasoned Emma for advice, he and all of us would have come out the same way in the end.
by AmericanDreamer on Mon, 10/22/2012 - 4:58pm
I was four at the time. I'm embarrassed to admit I was a low, or more accurately, no information non voter. I didn't even know it was happening. Had I know I'm sure I'd have suggested the president send in Underdog to deal with it.
Have no fear.... Underdog is here.
by ocean-kat on Mon, 10/22/2012 - 4:50pm
Simon Barsinister really wasn't his match, was he?
And that Sweet Polly Purebread. A real Hotsy-Totsy, that one.
by quinn esq on Mon, 10/22/2012 - 5:31pm
Gettouttahere, if you knew about Underdog, you also knew from the Saturday morning media who the enemy was:
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by artappraiser on Mon, 10/22/2012 - 6:02pm
I remember it well. I should have know you'd come by and "pull a rabbit out of a hat." Anything else up your sleeve?
by ocean-kat on Mon, 10/22/2012 - 6:24pm
Its interesting how much more sophisticated cartoons were in our day compared to more recent times. There was so much irony, parody, and adult level humor in the cartoons back then. I wonder why and if that adult level content affected our minds. I wonder how or if the change affects the minds of children today.
by ocean-kat on Mon, 10/22/2012 - 6:40pm
I was fifteen. I was immortal back then so I didn't much give a flip at the time.
I know it isn't your favorite way to get info, but BloggingheadsTV has an extremely interesting interview with Peter Kornbluh of The National Security Archive. He was the first to get the recently released papers of Robert Kennedy and I'll bet he tells you things you didn't know before. Some he didn't know until recently. Anyway, below are the topic breakdowns.
Fifty years later, lessons from the Cuban Missile Crisis 5:53
Kennedy's secret overture to Castro 9:12
Is Iran a slow-motion Cuban Missile Crisis? 6:13
How the mythology of the Crisis has hurt America 5:29
Kennedy's real strength: willingness to compromise 9:35
How the US can have normal relations with Cuba 4:43
http://bloggingheads.tv/videos/11976
by A Guy Called LULU on Mon, 10/22/2012 - 5:28pm
We were never going to mutually destruct and I can tell you why.
One day 50 years ago this week, (I don't remember which day in particular, unfortunately,) after we came back from morning mass to break fast with our breakfasts (which had to be shoehorned into our lunchboxes with our lunch,) the nuns dragged us back to church to pray nearly all day for God to show the way for their dear President Kennedy. Perhaps it wasn't all day but it seemed like all day to us in 2nd grade. We had only just had it pounded into us how prayer worked, and so there was no reason to doubt that it would work on whatever the grownups were upset about. We just knew that it was our duty to save the USA and we did what we were told; no thanks required then or now.
by artappraiser on Mon, 10/22/2012 - 5:53pm
I was a just under two years from leaving my previous life and starting this life (of which the sole purpose was to eventually irritate the life of a small child in Nova Scotia at the time, who unbeknownst to him at time had angered the gods).
by Elusive Trope on Mon, 10/22/2012 - 7:57pm
Okay, I was 12 and therefore in the 5th grade? I dunno, I was never held back although I should have been put in the 10th grade right away because....
Anyway, I had no idea what was going on; I had no idea that those films that we saw in school had anything to do with anything and I knew that those poor folks in Hiroshima could not take care of themselves underneath desks and such.
But that is okay because at the age of 62 I have not had the opportunity to read all of the files and the only defense I have for my ridiculous political positions is that I really know that Mitt has no idea what the current files really tell us.
the end
by Richard Day on Mon, 10/22/2012 - 8:45pm
I was in the 6th grade. Like duck and cover would really save our asses. And those silly ID bracelets would have been slag.
by cmaukonen on Tue, 10/23/2012 - 12:36am