Pentagon report, in 1963 u. S. Army film that covers counterinsurgency efforts in vietnam, the cuban missile crisis, the berlin wall, and from the secretary of defense to the people of the United States, this is the annual report of our armed forces. Narrator, peter hackers, pentagon reporter. This is a euro crisis in asia, berlin and cuba and how our armed forces have met these meetings and challenges to freedom. In their drive for world domination, the communist have identified Different Levels of possible conflict to exploit. Peace ink of war and light of what he calls the new means of mass destruction. And what he calls local wars, he putsrejects because as he it, they may grow into a thermonuclear war. But he recognizes another category which he called war of liberation and popular revolts. What we prefer to call some version and covert aggression. It is these wars which he says are not only admissible but inevitable. Answer tested during a year in vietnam is counterinsurgency cou
The mansion in new york. Her book will be on sale afterward. It is my pleasure to introduce margaret oppenheimer. [applause] margaret thank you very much. July 3, age 33, a distinguished new yorker wrote a note in his diary. The celebrated colonel burr was married to the celebrated mrs. Jumel. His choice of adjectives was interesting. Not distinguished, but celebrated. Celebrity had the same connotation it does today. Someone who was known to the public but not always with approval. Today, i am going to talk about how eliza jumel and aaron burr became public figures, why they married, and what happened after these two celebrities joined hands. Ladies first. Eliza jumel is on the right. She is painted here one year before her marriage to aaron burr next to a portrait of him painted after the ceremony. Eliza jumel was born betsy bowen in providence, rhode island, in 1775. About 2. 5 weeks before the battle of lexington. There was absolutely nothing in her beginnings to suggest that her n
Of cuba. Within the past week, unmistakable evidence has established the fact that a series of offensive missile sites is now in preparation on that imprisoned island. The purpose of these bases can be none other than to provide a Nuclear Strike capability against the western hemisphere. The cuban missile crisis took place over an extremely tense 13 days in october of 1962. Only one combat fatality of this Huge International crisis. Fromwas Rudolph Anderson greenville. It began when the United States military began observing maritime shipments into cuba from the soviet union and we began flying missions in the u2 aircraft over cuba that were secret. ,hey were strategic highaltitude reconnaissance missions. We were snapping photographs of what was going on in cuba. It soon became apparent that the soviet union was developing mediumrange Ballistic Missiles and intermediate range Ballistic Missile sites in cuba. Kennedy informed the nation on a r 22 from the oval office on october 22 from
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At 8:45 AM on October 16, 1962, National Security Advisor McGeorge Bundy alerted President John F. Kennedy that a major international crisis was at hand. Russia had secretly placed nuclear missiles in Cuba, just 90 miles from the Florida coast. America could soon be under deadly attack.