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DID JFK OVERREACT IN CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS?

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Twenty-three years after the Cuban missile crisis of October 1962, many citizens, including the loyal memoirists of Camelot, still claim it was John F. Kennedy’s “finest hour” — a judicious use of threat and restraint to force the Soviets to back down and remove their missiles from Cuba.

To an increasing number of analysts, however, it was an unnecessary confrontation, one that brought the two grea ...