1962: Cuban Missile Crisis: Street Interviews with Londoners

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On 23 October 1962, ITN's Nick Barker asked Londoners what they thought of President Kennedy's actions regarding the Soviet placement of nuclear missiles in Cuba.

The day before, on 22 October, Kennedy had made a televised address in which he announced that the US navy would begin enforcing "a strict quarantine on all offensive military equipment under shipment to Cuba". In the same address, Kennedy stated explicitly that it was US policy "to regard any nuclear missile launched from Cuba against any nation in the Western Hemisphere as an attack by the Soviet Union on the United States, requiring a full retaliatory response upon the Soviet Union."

As is captured in this short set of interviews with members of the public, some believed Kennedy was right to stand up to Soviet Union, while others believed his words and actions were a dangerous escalation and made confrontation more likely.

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People were so much more intelligent and well informed about global affairs in those days.

Most people now are thick

newuk
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1:09 Those kids don't seem to know that the doomsday clock was closer than ever.

cayocamacho
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Londoners have two jobs first to be opinionated and second to be secretary of United States 😂

leviscoop
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Absolutely right about needing to take a stand at that time. Don’t give up Berlin in fear, and don’t allow for the further emboldening of hostile action with Cuba at that same level.

Otherwise, the Soviets would’ve pushed further on other issues. It would not have stopped.

robertortiz-wilson
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Kennedy took a stand and Kruschev blinked

GeordiePat
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Remarkably history keeps repeating itself with Russia.

pjk
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fast forward 60 years and we reversed that, now we have ukraine threatening similar with NATO

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