The Cuban Missile Crisis: What the President Didn't Know

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Partner:: Commonwealth Club
Location:: The Commonwealth Club of California
San Francisco, CA
Event Date:: 10.08.08
Speaker:: Michael Dobbs
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Summary: Washington Post reporter Michael Dobbs describes the moment the world came closer than ever before (or, possibly, since) to nuclear destruction.

He will draw modern-day lessons from those perilous 13 days, including the importance of character in the Oval Office and the myth of crisis management.

How much did John F. Kennedy know in the run-up to the Cuban Missile Crisis? What were his motivations, and what were those of his Soviet counterpart, Nikita Khrushchev?

Dobbs will discuss his research on the untold facets of the October crisis - The Commonwealth Club of California

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Michael Dobbs

Michael Dobbs worked as a reporter for The Washington Post, since 1980, when he joined the paper as its Warsaw correspondent. He was the first western journalist to visit the Gdansk shipyard in August 1980. He spent much of his career as a foreign correspondent covering the collapse of communism.In Washington, he has worked for the Post as a State Department reporter and as a foreign investigative reporter. His Down with Big Brother: The Fall of The Soviet Empire was a runner-up for the 1997 PEN award for nonfiction. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland. His history books include One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear war, Down with Big Brother: Fall of the Soviet Empire, a biography of Madeleine Albright, and Saboteurs: The Nazi Raid on America.

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01 hr 06 min 35 sec

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01.: Introduction

01 min 17 sec

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02.: The Peak of the Cold War

05 min 34 sec

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03.: Cuban Missile Crisis Background

04 min 25 sec

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04.: No Eyeball to Eyeball Confrontation at Blockade

02 min 56 sec

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05.: Plan to Invade Cuba

05 min 56 sec

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06.: Soviets Come Close to Destroying Guantanamo

06 min 13 sec

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07.: CIA Never Found Warheads on Cuba

08 min 34 sec

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08.: Warhead Distribution on Black Saturday

02 min 43 sec

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09.: Dangerous Situation Across Bering Strait

04 min 27 sec

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10.: Kennedy Developed Good Instincts

04 min 01 sec

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11.: Q1: Lessons Learned from Cuban Missile Crisis

03 min 00 sec

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12.: Q2: Availability of Information

02 min 09 sec

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13.: Q3: Media Coverage of the Crisis

01 min 45 sec

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14.: Q4: Attempts to Remove Castro from Power

01 min 55 sec

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15.: Q5: Castro Was Not CIA

00 min 21 sec

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16.: Q6: Role of Bobby Kennedy

02 min 04 sec

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17.: Q7: President Kennedy was Kept Informed

01 min 28 sec

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18.: Q8: Preventing Another Crisis in Latin America

02 min 58 sec

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19.: Q9: Khrushchev's Objective

02 min 16 sec

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20.: Q10: If Iran Has Nuclear Missiles in Venezuela

02 min 15 sec

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Dobbs: The View from the Oval Office Can Be Very Limited

02 min 32 sec

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Michael Dobbs on JFK's Near Disastrous Invasion of Cuba

03 min 29 sec

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When the Cold War Spun Out of President Kennedy's Control

04 min 55 sec

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