Of october, 1962 when the United States and the soviet union faced off over missiles in cuba in one of the hottest episodes of the cold war. He explains how the ideological militancy of cuban leader fidel castro worried leaders in both moscow and washington who did not truly desire Nuclear Conflict despite their tough talk. Dr. Kengor all right, welcome. Here good we have cspan today. And we are going to talk about the cuban missile crisis. And specifically, fidel castro leading into the cuban missile crisis. So we will hit a. Of 1957 until 1950 nine until the missile crisis itself in october, 1962. Aboutst class we talked july 20 6, 1953 launch of the revolution, the communist revolution in cuba. That was when fidel and force of 100 to 200 rebels launched an attack on the Army Barracks santiago,o, in cuba. It did not go well. A bunch of rebels were killed. Fidel castro ascends to 15 years in prison for that. He did not quite serve 15 years in prison. He served less than one year, 11 m
Crisis itself in october, 1962. That will pick off a little bit where we left off in the last class. The last class we talked about july 26, 1953 launch of the revolution, the communist revolution in cuba. And that was when fidel and a force of 100 to 200 rebels launched an attack on the Army Barracks in santiago, cuba. 15 years in prison, so less than a year in prison, 11 months altogether. With that, he was on the run, he was in exile. He went to mexico. His brother, raul, as well. They would eventually come back and try to recommence the revolution, taking over in january, 1959. That is about where we left off. One thing i didnt mention the last class, but youre going to read the article on this, its the Herb Matthews piece in the New York Times. If you have not read it yet if you have, you have probably been shocked, right . By this article, you are thinking what is this . What is this piece . Herb matthews was a reporter for the New York Times. He wrote a february 24, 1957 front p
Will get your reaction throughout President Trump is handling the house impeachment inquiry, by taking your phone calls and sharing your tweets and facebook comments. Washington is next. Host it is the washington journal for october 11. President trump held a rally in minneapolis, his first since the start of the impeachment inquiry. The rally tohe use criticize, he also took aim at joe biden and his son, hunter. Under other themes came out throughout the rally. We will get your reaction during our three hours on the washington journal. For republicans. 2027488000 for democrats. And independence bank, 2027488002 independence , 2027488002. If you want to text us, you can do so at 2027488003. Post on our Facebook Page at facebook. Com cspan. Emerge fromhemes to that rally was that of joe biden and his son, hunter. Here is part of what the president said. [video clip] here is hunter . Here is hunter . You know nothing about energy. You know nothing about anything, frankly. You are a loser
Asked woodard to be the kind of commanderinchief of a project of preparing such a report, which was unprecedented as van said in the introduction to the original volume. 1974. And he asked the people to be his field general and they identified and recruited about 12 historians to write one, two, or three sketches of that many presidencies. And i was chosen to be one. We had eight weeks to do it. It was a day before facts, before email, before everything. And we managed to do it in eight weeks and we submitted it to john doer and thats the last we heard of it. And six weeks later, the president resigned. Watch tonight at 8 00 eastern on cspans q a. Q a. This weekend on American History tv, today at 2 00 p. M. Eastern, the psychological impact of flying on world war i pilots. And at 7 00, women in the Apollo Program and the challenges they faced. There were cameras all over the place. But there was this theyre supposed to be on the hall, this camera was on for so long. I didnt say anythi
Impeachment inquiry that nancy pelosi announced this week, could you talk to us about the scope of this inquiry . When we get to actual articles of impeachment, would you like it to focus on the ukraine allegations or would you like it to be broader in scope . How would you like to see this play out . Rep. Pocan we want to get this done expeditiously. I think that will be the focus. And that means taking a confession by the president this week to what happened in dealing with it very promptly. I think thats going to be the focus. So weve had adam schiff and jerry nadler into the meeting yesterday. Had a great conversation about next steps. And i think youre going to see the Intelligence Committee do its work with what happened this week, the president asking another Foreign Government to essentially get dirt on his political opponent. The fact that he withheld money from a country just days prior that congress had approved and the fact that now after weve seen the whistleblower reporte