Consequences of Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct. 14 - 28 1961 - U.S. Jupiter ballistic missiles in Italy & Turkey Summer, 1962 - Cuba & Soviet Union agree to missile sites Agreement: Official – 1 - Cuba dismantles bombs, 2 - U.S. agrees to not invade Cuba; Unofficial – - U.S. removes bombs from Italy & Turkey PGM-19 Jupiter
Cuban Missile Crisis
Consequences of Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct. 14 - 28 (1) Moscow-Washington Hotline, the “red phone” – direct communication (2) LTBT / PTBT – Nuclear agreement to ban all nuclear tests above ground and to slow the nuclear arms race (3) Krushchev removal – Oct., 1964, Premier Krushchev is replaced by the Politburo, as the Soviet Union Supreme leadership felt humiliated
November 22, 1963 JFK was in Dallas trying to get support for next year’s election. Dallas had an unfriendly reputation towards politicians.
Lee Harvey Oswald Shown here in Oak Cliff, Texas. Tried to defect to the Soviet Union and Cuba.
6th floor
Sniper perch 1st shot 3rd shot 4 out of 178 witnesses claimed to hear shots coming from multiple directions
Oswald transferred to another jail. Jack Ruby, a Dallas nightclub owner, shoots Oswald on live TV. LHO will never go on record why he did what he did. He is now dead.
Back and to the left? Many assume based on JFK’s bodily motion and blood spray that he was shot from the front.
All witnesses that day described shots from where Oswald was Witness described people but no shots behind fence Oswald
Still frame at 0:15 of various bullet evidence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r37NLnsVM8k Zapruder Film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nmGS8rVuIM
Picket fence
View from behind fence (x marks the spot) 3rd shot
Magic Bullet? Using the bullet wounds, Stone used this diagram to convince people that one bullet could not hit JFK and the governor the way reported. Notice both heads are level with each other.