The Once-Classified Tale of Juanita Moody

Smithsonian Magazine ^ | 3/1/2021 | David Wolman

[knarf]

HERE

[minnesota_bound]

JFK and the democrats screwed up as usual. Lots of dead people to come because of their stupidity. The democrats never have stopped their stupidity and their policies have killed millions.

[PLMerite]

We didn’t overlap, but I heard her name a lot.

[Oatka]

I had a typesetting shop then, and wrote most of the “crisis” news off to the typical (even then) Media B/S. I started to get nervous though, when they started playing martial/patriotic tunes on the radio. They don’t do that unless war is imminent.

[Robwin]

I remember well the so-called Cuban Missile Crisis. During the whole hullabaloo I went about my business as if it were just another day. I knew even then hero of the Bay of Pigs Kennedy didn’t have the stones to really do anything even if the stories of Soviets moving nuclear missiles into Cuba were true. Subsequently I was proven correct, despite all the ridiculous propaganda about Kennedy’s courage and heroism which followed.

[ASA Vet]

MI Ping

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[PIF]

Smithsonian is not a reliable source - had a subscription once and every story had either wrong information, disinformation, out right lies, and major omissions - some were mostly wishful thinking.

[null and void]

I remember the Cuban Missile Crisis. I was a kid but I wasn't *totally* clueless regarding things like nuclear weapons. I recall being very frightened for a couple of days.

The school's duck and cover drills had a special sense of urgency for us on a military air station in the south east, 20 miles from Yemassee...

[null and void]

I started to get nervous though, when they started playing martial/patriotic tunes on the radio. They don’t do that unless war is imminent.

Good point.

I don't think it will be all that long before we 'hear the music' again...

[null and void]

...in ‘honor’ of Gen Milly, and his ilk, I suggest they start by playing ‘when the capons go rolling along’!

Yes, capons.

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for this link.

Interesting time then.

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for the ping.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Cuban exiles with sources still in the country reported that the Communists were building hidden missile sites in the mountains but no one seemed to believe them.

Thank God for the US pilot who got these photos to show where the missiles were parked. I believe he was the one who was shot down by the Reds but somehow managed to get his photos back to US intelligence receivers.