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The Edge of Armageddon (Cuban Missile Crisis, Kennedy, Khrushchev)

Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

CHAPTER

Kennedy's Secret Plan to Resolve the Cuban Missile Crisis

J f k clearly had no faith in the strategy of accepting shif's friday offer and ignoring his public saturday message. Instead, he worked secretly with rusk to put together an emergency fallback plan. The president later confided to john kenneth galbreth you will never know how much bad advice now, thanks to the xcom recordings, we all know. And there was an awful lot of bad advice that almost certainly would have led to nuclear war.

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