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Student Essay on Viewing the Cuban Missile Crisis Through the Eyes of an American Citizen

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Viewing the Cuban Missile Crisis Through the Eyes of an American Citizen

Summary:   Discusses the reactions of Bill Doman to President Kennedy's decisions during the Cuban Missile Crisis.


In October of 1962, Bill Doman was living the American dream in Salt Lake City Utah. He had a wife, three small children and a steady job. He had recently graduated from the University of Utah and was awaiting his formal release from the military reserves, having served briefly in the Korean War some nine years earlier. Bill is a proud American, a history buff, which cultivated his love of this county. Then, in just thirteen days, his way of thinking concerning the security of the United States and his very own family was changed forever with the advent of the Cuban missile crisis (Doman).

On the morning of October 16, 1962 the beginning of the Cuban Missile Crisis, President John F. Kennedy learned from surveillance film obtained by an air force U2 spy plane, the.....

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