Presidency of John F. Kennedy
Khrushchev’s son recalls Sputnik, Gagarin ascent in US-Soviet space race
In October 1957, a beach-ball sized metal globe hurtled through space a couple hundred miles above the United States. That orb was the first artificial Earth satellite — Sputnik. Sergei Khrushchev, former missile engineer and son of Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev, remembers the US-Soviet race into space.
Peace Corps Friendship Changes Lives in Kenya and Beyond
Mohamud Said was a school boy in northern Kenya when he met Peace Corps volunteer Russell Morgan in 1965. Now Said is the president of the Kenyan Medical Association. Anchor Marco Werman speaks with Said and Morgan about how their friendship changed them.
The Real End of the Cuban Missile Crisis
For some of us the memory of the Cuban Missile Crisis is found only in the back of textbooks or movie theater screens, placed before Woodstock but after McCarthyism in the mind’s historical timeline. For others, the memory of those long, tense, days in October feel far more real than any documentary or Kevin Costner movie. And like any […]