Kennedy's Last Days: the Assassination That Defined a Generation
“The president spends Friday, October 26, planning the invasion of Cuba. No detail is too small. He requests a list of all Cuban doctors in Miami, just in case there will be a need to airlift them into Cuba. Kennedy knows where each invasion ship will assemble. All the while, the president frets that “when military hostilities first begin, those missiles will be fired at us.”JFK is privately telling aides that it’s now a showdown between him and Khrushchev, “two men sitting on opposite sides of ...the world,” deciding “the end of civilization.”It’s a staring contest. The loser is the one who blinks first.Khrushchev spends all of that night in the Kremlin—just in case something violent transpires. The Soviet leader is uncharacteristically pensive. Something is on his mind. Shortly after midnight, he sits down and dictates a new message to President Kennedy.It is 7:00 P.M. in Washington and 3:00 A.M. in Moscow when the message is delivered. JFK has spent the day fine-tuning the upcoming invasion of Cuba.MoreLess
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