Talk:Cuban Missile Crisis

Lt. Leonard LeMaster

My great-uncle was one of the guys who flew under the radar and snapped pictures here, if someone wants to look into it and maybe add his name somewhere. Here's an article.

http://www.hendersonvillelightning.com/news/986-local-retiree-played-key-role-in-missile-crisis.html

Italy

The article is not consistent about Italy. The fifth paragraph from the top says there has been debate about Italy. The box on the right treats it as certain that Italy was involved. 2A00:23C7:99A5:9E01:B5EE:EEE7:8444:69BF (talk) 11:08, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

The missiles in Italy were dismantled afterwards, whether or not it was part of a direct agreement between Kennedy and Khrushchev. (Aardi18 (talk) 15:00, 6 October 2023 (UTC))

Assassination of John F. Kennedy

Under Aftermath –> U.S. leadership, I find it weird that it isn't mentioned that Kennedy was assassinated a year later while still in office. Especially when the text just suddenly refers to "president Lyndon B. Johnson" without giving context. I've for this reason tried to add the below sentence about Kennedy's assassination. A source is needed and it can be improved.

As Kennedy would be assassinated on 22 November 1963 during as visit to Texas, vice president Lyndon B. Johnson assumed the presidency on the same day to which he would remain until January 1969 when succeed by Richard Nixon.

Grumman S-2 Tracker story

From the current article: "While surfacing, the B-59 “came under machine-gun fire from [U.S. ASW S-2] Tracker aircraft." This is doubtful. Grumman S-2s in US Navy service were not armed with integral machine guns, and there is no evidence that they were ever armed with podded machine guns:

"The Tracker had an internal torpedo bay capable of carrying two lightweight aerial torpedoes or one nuclear depth charge. There were six underwing hard points for rocket pods and conventional depth charges or up to four additional torpedoes." - from Grumman S-2 Tracker § Sensors and armament

Either the aircraft was misidentified or else the shooting never happened. Now, that's not to say that the Soviet crew made up this story, it is possible they imagined a shooting due to the psychological pressure they were under, and that possibility alone is a pertinent part of the story. Tfdavisatsnetnet (talk) 18:42, 17 April 2025 (UTC)

Decided that this text was both mature and unlikely to be better documented in the future. Therefore, I decided to remove the dubious template and replace it with most of this talk page text in a footnote. Given the facts in the quoted text from the Grumman S-2 Tracker article it should be covered by WP:Obvious. Tfdavisatsnetnet (talk) 19:35, 17 April 2025 (UTC)

Results

Kennedy also ended US support for anti-Castro fighters on Cuba after the crisis. HerbGowan (talk) 19:24, 24 April 2025 (UTC)

North Vietnamese construction of SAM sites in Cuba

Apparently a stream of thought error in the description of the SAM site satellite photo has become a reported fact here due to a lack of critical editing. If in fact the North Vietnamese built SAM sites in Cuba this needs to be in the body of the article. Pretty sure the person that posted the image just made a transposition from Cuba to North Vietnam unthinkingly. They might have built such sites and adjusted tactics but that would have been some years later on their own territory not in Cuba. If the photo is of NV and not Cuba, that should be made clear. 2600:1017:A112:45B0:556F:A15:2060:4C79 (talk) 21:05, 15 August 2025 (UTC)

To be clear this shows when the you click the image in the caption. Best guess is the original context at the site where the image came from was about the Viet Nam war for which an image from Cuba was used. I removed that sentence at commons which addresses the issue. 2600:1017:A112:45B0:3477:5C2A:F655:2196 (talk) 11:09, 16 August 2025 (UTC)