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Sorenson remembers the Cuban Missile Crisis

Broadcast: Midday, 10/22/2007, 12:00 p.m.

Forty-five years ago, President John F. Kennedy announced that the U.S. had spotted "offensive missile sites" in Cuba capable of launching an attack on America. In a recent speech at the Kennedy Library, JFK's aide Theodore Sorenson explained how the U.S. averted a possible nuclear war with the USSR.

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