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History Matters: The Cuban Missile Crisis.

Red River Radio | By Gary Joiner, Ph.D.
Published October 18, 2016 at 9:38 AM CDT
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CIA reference photograph of Soviet medium-range ballistic missile (SS-4 in U.S. documents, R-12 in Soviet documents) in Red Square, Moscow.

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Airs Tuesday, October 18, at 7:45 a.m. Commentator Gary Joiner remembers October, 1962, and the most dangerous episode of the cold war.
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Gary Joiner, Ph.D.
Gary Joiner is a cartographer and an associate professor of history at LSU in Shreveport. He is the author or editor of 12 books including “Shiloh and the Western Campaign of 1862,” “One Damn Blunder From Beginning to End: The Red River Campaign in 1864,” “Through the Howling Wilderness: The Red River Campaign and Union Failure in 1864,” “Red River Steamboats,” and “Mr. Lincoln's Brown Water Navy: Mississippi Squadron.”
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