Timeline: 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis October 9 President Kennedy orders a U-2 reconnaissance flight over western Cuba, but the mission is delayed by inclement weather. October 14 Resuming the previously scrubbed mission, a US Air Force U-2 plane flying over western Cuba discovers missile sites. Photographs obtained by this reconnaissance operation provide conclusive evidence that […]
PBS is set to air a documentary on the life of Lee Harvey Oswald–March 13 at 9:00 pm. Who was Lee Harvey Oswald? Lee Harvey Oswald was, of course, the man accused of assassinating President John F. Kennedy. Did he gun down the thirty-fifth president with brutal precision? Or, in his own words, was Oswald […]
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If he had lived, Lee Harvey Oswald would have celebrated his 73rd birthday today, October 18, 2012. On October 18, 1939, a boy who would become infamous was born in New Orleans to a recent widow. Lee Harvey Oswald‘s father had died two months before his birth, forsaking him to a virtually unsupervised childhood as […]
Excellent video compiling clips of Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Director of Haydon Planetarium, discussing why we need to keep exploring space, beyond JFK’s dream of a moon landing in the 1960s.
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