The US & Cuba: Kennedy vs. Castro

Published: Nov. 6, 2020, 7 p.m.

b'New Take on the Cuban Missile Crisis
Guest:\\xa0Martin Sherwin,\\xa0University Professor of History at George Mason University, and author of "Gambling with Armageddon: Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis"
How close did we come to nuclear disaster when the Soviets and the US went toe to toe over Cuba in 1962? Much closer than most people think. During the Cuban missile crisis, leaders on both sides felt and fumbled and bumbled their way out of a mess that could have ended very differently.
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Was the Murder of JFK Castro\\u2019s Payback?
Guest:\\xa0Jim Johnston, lawyer, lecturer, and author of "Murder, Inc.: The CIA Under John F. Kennedy"\\xa0
The Bay of Pigs invasion was just one of the many ways John F. Kennedy tried to destabilize Fidel Castro\\u2019s regime, though the President\\u2019s other methods were more cloak-and-dagger, such as hiring mobsters to poison Castro, deploying saboteurs, and secretly organizing a coup. Despite Kennedy\\u2019s actions, and Lyndon Johnson\\u2019s reversal of these plots, the Warren Commission concluded that JFK\\u2019s assassination had nothing to do with his Cuba policy.'