U. Nebraska alum reflects on Cuban missile crisis experience University Wire | February 16, 1999| | . Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Brian Carlson
University Wire
02-16-1999
(Daily Nebraskan) (U-WIRE) LINCOLN, Neb. -- At the most intense moment of the Cold War - the Cuban missile crisis of October 1962 - the United States and the Soviet Union avoided nuclear holocaust.

For that simple reason, Theodore Sorensen, former special counsel to President John F. Kennedy, maintains that the crisis was Kennedy's finest hour.

"You and I and the whole world may owe our continuing existence to John F. Kennedy," he said.

As he has done for the past 36 years, Sorensen defended Kennedy's management of the events of October 1962.

The Cuban ...

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