Showing posts with label 1962. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1962. Show all posts
Friday, February 14, 2014
Back Then, 1962: Wilmington, NC-- Heart of Wilmington Motel and Cable TV
From the April 24, 2012, Wilmington (NC) Star-News. //// APRIL 15, 1962: Construction on the Heart of Wilmington Motel expected to start in June. It was downtown Wilmington's first motel. The rooms had acccess from the outside. It is planned for the area of Third and Grace streets. I found a picture of it on the CardCow site and it was quite impressive looking. I am not sure if it is still there. ///// APRIL 15TH, 1962: Cable TV coming to Wilmington. The Cable Television Company, based at 7 South Second Street bragged that residents would now have access to as many channels as viewers in New York City and Los Angeles. They would now have FIVE channels: WRAL in Raleigh, WECT in Wilmington, WITN in Washington (NC), WNCT in Greenville and WTVD in Durham. //// Wow! Five Channels. A Different Time Indeed. --Cooter
Monday, October 22, 2012
Sure Scared Me Fifty Years Ago: The Cuban Missile Crisis
From the Oct. 22, 2012, Northwest Herald (Il)
"Kennedy averts Cuban Missile Crisis Disaster" by Joseph C. Morton.
On this day (Oct. 22) 1962, President John F. Kennedy appeared on TV to inform the country that the Soviets were constructing nuclear missile sites in Cuba, just 90 miles from the U.S..
That was the first the citizens had heard of it, although it had been going on since Oct. 13th. They just hadn't told us. The whole thing lasted 13 days before the Soviet Union finally backed down.
I figured that I was a goner. Here I was in 6th grade, and already doomed. Sure, we had always had nuclear holocaust drills where we had to get on out knees, put our heads on the floor and cover our heads with our arms. Kind of an embarrassing position to say the least. And we had to do it under our desks. That position and those desks were really going to protect us if a big one went off nearby. Just a lot of real burned heinies sticking up in the air at best.
I remember seeing all the photgraphs in the next day's newspapers.
Way Too Young To Die. --DaCoot
"Kennedy averts Cuban Missile Crisis Disaster" by Joseph C. Morton.
On this day (Oct. 22) 1962, President John F. Kennedy appeared on TV to inform the country that the Soviets were constructing nuclear missile sites in Cuba, just 90 miles from the U.S..
That was the first the citizens had heard of it, although it had been going on since Oct. 13th. They just hadn't told us. The whole thing lasted 13 days before the Soviet Union finally backed down.
I figured that I was a goner. Here I was in 6th grade, and already doomed. Sure, we had always had nuclear holocaust drills where we had to get on out knees, put our heads on the floor and cover our heads with our arms. Kind of an embarrassing position to say the least. And we had to do it under our desks. That position and those desks were really going to protect us if a big one went off nearby. Just a lot of real burned heinies sticking up in the air at best.
I remember seeing all the photgraphs in the next day's newspapers.
Way Too Young To Die. --DaCoot
Saturday, October 20, 2012
That's How Close We Came to Armageddon During the Cuban Missile Crisis
From Oct. 16, 2012 Yahoo! News.
Newly released papers of Robert F. Kennedy on the Cuban Missile Crisis had the words to a draft that President Kennedy was ready to read if the Soviets had not backed down.
"My fellow Americans, with a heavy heart, and in necessary fulfillment of my oath of office, I have ordered--and the United States Air Force has now carried out-- military operations with conventional weapons only, to remove a major nuclear weapons build-up from the soil of Cuba."
Had we done so, the Cuban commander probably would have replied with the 100 nuclear tactical weapons at his disposal which would have led to US retaliation and then the Soviet Union.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara wanted 500 bombing sorties followed by an invasion of Cuba by 90,000 soldiers.
Those were some mighty scary times to live through. I was 11 at the time and was pretty sure I wouldn't live to see my 12th birthday.
Newly released papers of Robert F. Kennedy on the Cuban Missile Crisis had the words to a draft that President Kennedy was ready to read if the Soviets had not backed down.
"My fellow Americans, with a heavy heart, and in necessary fulfillment of my oath of office, I have ordered--and the United States Air Force has now carried out-- military operations with conventional weapons only, to remove a major nuclear weapons build-up from the soil of Cuba."
Had we done so, the Cuban commander probably would have replied with the 100 nuclear tactical weapons at his disposal which would have led to US retaliation and then the Soviet Union.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara wanted 500 bombing sorties followed by an invasion of Cuba by 90,000 soldiers.
Those were some mighty scary times to live through. I was 11 at the time and was pretty sure I wouldn't live to see my 12th birthday.
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