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Today in 1962, then President J.F.Kennedy goes on television and informs the world that the Soviet Union has placed missile installations in Cuba, only 90 miles from the American mainland. Since and forever after, Cuba has become the little big bad red wolf all people in the U.S. are to fear and hate. My mother told me stories about drills she went through in school, hiding underneath her desk (because that was gonna protect them). The report allegedly put most of the eastern seaboard and southern United States within range of Soviet nuclear warheads.

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