The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 - The Rest of the Story - The USA Deployed Nuclear Missiles in Turkey Aimed at the USSR in 1959... and Then Later the Soviet Union Did a Similar Action in Cuba. Causing JFK to Freak Out.

The Cuban Missile Crisis was a 35-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union, which escalated into an international crisis when American deployments of missiles in Italy and Turkey were matched by Soviet deployments of similar ballistic missiles in Cuba. Despite the short time frame, the Cuban Missile Crisis remains a defining moment in national security and nuclear war preparation. The confrontation is often considered the closest the Cold War came to escalating into a full-scale nuclear war.^[3]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis

The current crisis with Turkey over Syria has raised questions, yet to be resolved, about the security of 50 U.S. nuclear weapons stored at Incirlik Air Base. These questions have been posed before, going back almost to the start of nuclear deployments in Turkey in 1959.  

https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/nuclear-vault/2019-10-30/nuclear-weapons-turkey-1959

Declassified Map: 

US Atomic Missiles Deployed in Turkey

Italy and Turkey accepted Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile bases. Italian and Turkish crews trained to operate the missiles, but Americans controlled the nuclear warheads. Two squadrons with a total of 30 missiles were operational at Gioia del Colle, Italy, by 1961; a single squadron of 15 Jupiters became operational at Cigli Air Base, Turkey, in 1962. Turkey regarded these Jupiters as a symbol of Alliance's determination to use atomic weapons against Russian attack on Turkey whether by large conventional or nuclear forces, although Turks had been most reluctant admit the presence IRBM's publicly.

https://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/turkey/nuke-1.htm

Is it true that the United States of America had a secret missile base in Turkey during the height of the Cold War?

Yes. It was dismantled after the Cuban Missile Crisis, in return for the removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba. This quid-pro-quo wasn’t known by the American public until sometime later. This gave the world the impression that the Soviets backed down during the Cuban Missile Crisis and that the US gave Khrushchev nothing in return.

SEE? LYING BY THE US GOVERNMENT WORKED! I knew Nothing About the US Deployment of Atomic Missiles in Turkey... 

https://www.quora.com/Is-it-true-that-the-United-States-of-America-had-a-secret-missile-base-in-Turkey-during-the-height-of-the-Cold-War

The Truth Makes the Entire Event Seem Totally Different... Like: It's Somehow "OK" for the USA To Point Atom Bombs at Moscow but... The Instant the USSR Does the Same Thing... FREAK OUT!

Interesting TV Shows: "The Fidel Castro Tapes" on PBS ...and... "The Windsors" on CNN - Hours of Real Film of Castro With English Subtitles... The History of England During WW1 up to WW2

For Example: I did not know that King George the Fifth of England, Wilhelm of Germany and Czar Nickolas were Cousins and They All Looked Like Twins.  George V Refused to Allow Czar Nicholas to Flee to England with his Family after the Russian Revolution and so All the Romanovs Died...

The Fidel Castro Tapes has Films of Him Doing TV Interviews Before the Revolution in Cuba with Ernesto "Che" Guevara... Then they Show a Hero's Welcome Parade in New York City with Thousands of Americans Cheering Fidel... and Castro Meeting Vice President Richard Nixon... and Actual Film of Soldiers Invading Cuba at The Bay of Pigs.... They Show Film of Castro at Every Age All the Way to His Funeral and Raul Castro, His Brother Becoming Leader... With English Subtitles... Fascinating...

In 1959, Fidel Castro rose to power in Cuba. He has been one of the most controversial figures in the world ever since. This is the story of the Cuban dictator's turbulent career, told in part through media reports, rare images and recordings.
https://www.pbs.org/show/fidel-castro-tapes/

The Episode I Saw of "The Windsors" was Mostly About England in the Era of World War One thru the Late 1930's. King George the Fifth CHANGED HIS NAME from Saxe-Coburg and Gotha to Windsor to avoid The English People's Hatred of Germans... after all, there was a War Going on and British Boys were Killing Germans. He took the name from the Castle that his Family was Living In.   

His Son, Edward the Eighth, Did Not Want to Do the Formal Work of Being Monarch and Spent his Time Traveling the Globe talking to Subjects and Trying to Convince then that Having an English Man as King was a Great Idea... Eventually, he failed completely and there were Revolutions in India, Australia, Canada, Africa and Asia... Edward fell in love with a Married American Woman, Wallis Simpson. She got divorced and They Got Married BUT... The English People Insisted that he STOP BEING KING if he wanted to Marry her... So he abdicated the Throne... Difficult to Believe... but That's what life was like in 1936... 
https://www.cnn.com/shows/the-windsors-cnn-original-series

Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds 

Freedom for Puerto Rico! Why is it still a territory of the USA? Why are they not their own country? Like the Philippines?

We used to have many territories, Like Hawaii, Alaska, The Philippines, Guam, American Samoa, US Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico... but we gave Statehood to some, independence to others... 

Think about the Hurricane rebuilding efforts in The Dominican Republic, Haiti and Cuba. The were hit by Hurricane Maria just like Puerto Rico was. 

I have no idea at all what they are doing and I don't care... It's their own country and they are doing whatever they are doing and I wish them good luck... just don't ask the USA for any help.

We ought to grant freedom for Puerto Rico and let them solve their own problems, or not... whatEVER! 

I really like the Musical "West Side Story" by Leonard Bernstein. I see that a benefit recording of the song "Maria" was approved by the Bernstein family in order to generate some money for Puerto Rico Disaster Relief. Great Idea! It's a classic story with many EPIC songs. It tells that tale of a romance between a Puerto Rican Woman and a Polish man and the troubles of Dating outside your ethnic group... The Same story as Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare... It also explores the problems of Teenagers and Gang Violence during the 1950s in New York City. 

It turns out that the Tinfoil Hats People were Right... Microwave Weapons Are Prime Suspect in Illnesses of U.S. Embassy Workers in Cuba.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/01/science/sonic-attack-cuba-microwave.html
Doctors and scientists say microwave strikes may have caused sonic delusions and very real brain damage among embassy staff and family members.

During the Cold War, Washington feared that Moscow was seeking to turn microwave radiation into covert weapons of mind control.  THE USA SCIENTISTS WERE SUCCESSFUL... WE BUILT WEAPONS THAT COULD BEAM TALKING RIGHT INTO YOUR HEAD... 

More recently, the American military itself sought to develop microwave arms that could invisibly beam painfully loud booms and even spoken words into people’s heads. The aims were to disable attackers and wage psychological warfare.

Now, doctors and scientists say such unconventional weapons may have caused the baffling symptoms and ailments that, starting in late 2016, hit more than three dozen American diplomats and family members in Cuba and China. The Cuban incidents resulted in a diplomatic rupture between Havana and Washington.

Democrats Launch "Resistance Summer" Focused on Healthcare, Education & Social Security

https://www.democracynow.org/2017/6/16/democrats_launch_resistance_summer_focused_on

Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MI), says Trump is "dragging us back to the failed past, that didn’t work." Ellison says opposition to Trump’s policies will be the focus of a so- called Resistance Summer announced by the Democratic National Committee.

Do what you can to oppose the Republicrimes

Trump has the wrong idea on Cuba. We need more tourism and more business not less. Duh.

Why does he always support ideas that are wrong? It turns out that upon further investigation the laws regarding trade and travel to Cuba have changed very little. It was just an opportunity to have fans of Trump cheer while he lied on TV. A favorite pastime of the President.

Arcata, California Pastels on the Plaza benefit art show.

an example of a good idea...a fundraiser for children's Head Start.