an old friend wrote:
K4YZ wrote:

nobodys old friend wrote:

KØHB wrote:

"an old friend" wrote


bull@@@@ Jim

every movie or account of those days ...........

I don't know what they taught you as a Colonel in the Chemical Corps, but I was
there on the blockade line (didn't watch some sensational movie version) and Jim
speaks truly.

no he doesn't

Yes, he does.


not realy

all the accounts of the matter make clear that we traded without
appearing to trade the obselete jupiter bases

It was HARDLY a "trade". We agreed to remove missles that were
already obsolete and unservicible in return for the Russians
dismantallying bases for "state-of-the-art" nuclear arms only 90 from
home.


it was not a fair trade but at the point it was made it served as a Fig
leaf for the Soveit leader (whose name I not going to try speling on my
own and I am not looking it up)

That would have a been a tough one. How do you think you did with
"Soviet", "spelling", "missiles" and "valueable"?

but made in the face of what could have easily blown apart everything
both sides though was valueble it likely looked pretty to K at the time

Try "Missles of Oct" or "13 days" but I have never seen any historical
or fictionalized account of those days that does not deal with that
trade

and assuming you were on the blockade line (I don't know but will give
you the benifit of the doubt) that would be the last place to learn of
such things

"benefit"

The benefit is not yours to give.


sure is

but then you don't respect any view but your own

it was kept quiet for a time ( a few years) but I have known of the
Jupiters and their trade off since I was 4 or 5 years old or put
another way Under president Nixon in effect the next presidental term
to follow JFK, the event happened before I was born but I learn ed of
the crisis and the trade off at the same time in my youth

Hey Mr Rocket Scientist... The Nixon Presidency was NOT the next
administration for follow JFK.


it was the next eletced one the next presidential TERM as I said

I guess the truth wasn't known back in those days--you know, before it
all became revealed in history. The rest of us probably had some
strange idea that Goldwater ran against Johnson. Ever hear of it?

Dave K8MN