The tragedy of JFK’s failed attempt to end the Cold War

John Wight
4 min readNov 28, 2022

The story of history is the story of the roads not taken, and never more so than when it comes to the life and legacy of US President John F Kennedy.

Cuban Missile Crisis

Fifty-nine years after Kennedy’s historic ‘Peace Speech’, delivered in the form a commencement address to students and faculty at the American University in Washington on 10…

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