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
For sirera iara eisen. What recession a better than expected jobs report started the morning with an optimistic tone china says it has reached a consensus with the u. S. In this weeks trade talks and exxon ticking higher along with industrials and financials. And in just a few minutes, the actor who plays logan roy on hbos secession will join us on the cutthroat world of media competition. Hes going to be right here at post 9 joining us for the hour is kara fineman. Here we are sitting basically at the highs of the session i found it really interesting that yesterday the markets got pretty derailed by worries that the trade talks werent going so well today we have an agreement of principle and we really didnt move so much we have that other data out today, so its hard to really parse what to me, this kind of day seemed pretty goldilocks. You had a really good jobs number in the morning, right you had progress on china. Although ive got to say, im skeptical on every update that we get a
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