Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct. 1962.
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Just vs. unjust war : a historical perspective / Howard Zinn ; produced by Edmundo Resendez and Shaun Keenan Gilson.
Historian and playwrite Howard Zinn, best known for his history A People’s History of the United States, discusses the rhetoric around the concept of just causes, and charges that such a cause does not necessarily lead to a just war. He draws historical parallels between the Gulf War, 1990-1991, and: Korea, Vietnam, and the Cuban…
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President Kennedy’s Cuba statement.
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Adlai Stevenson address before the U.N. Security Council.
Speech on the deployment of nuclear missiles in Cuba, and the official U.S. government reaction.|ADLAI STEVENSON ADDRESS BEFORE THE U.M. SECURITY COUNCIL. – Speech on the deployment of nuclear missiles in Cuba, and the official U.S. government reaction. – RECORDED: Airchecked from life KGO-FM (San Francisco) broadcast, 23 Oct. 1962. BROADCAST: KPFA, 23 Oct. 1962.
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The Gulf war : what is the way out / Milton Viorst.
Milton Viorst, a correspondent for the New Yorker magazine, provides an historical perspective of the Persian Gulf region. He details United States objectives, Israeli objectives, the Iran-Iraq war, and the Iran-Contra affair. He also provides an alternative portrait of Saddam Hussein, and contrasts George Bush’s intransigence to John F. Kennedy’s flexibility during the Cuban Missile…
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Cuba and international law / Dr. Stefan Riesenfeld ; interviewed by Dr. Jerome Cohen.
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On the brink / produced by Laurie Garrett.
A documentary on the Cuban missile crisis. Includes actuality of John F. Kennedy and Aldai Stevenson, with a reading of Nikita Khrushchev’s analysis.|ON THE BRINK / produced by Laurie Garrett. – SERIES: KPFA thirty year retrospective| 1962 – A documentary on the Cuban missile crisis. Includes actuality of John F. Kennedy and Aldai Stevenson, with…