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Edge of armageddon : Florida and the Cuban Missle Crisis

Title
Edge of armageddon : Florida and the Cuban Missle Crisis / Nick Wynne and Joe Knetsch, editors.
Publication
[Parker Colorado?] : Outskirts Press, 2018.

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Additional Authors
  • Wynne, Nick
  • Knetsch, Joe
Description
xl, 123 pages; 23 cm
Summary
"For Floridians, who were on the frontline of the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962, tranquility in the face of the possible extermination of much of the world's population was difficult to maintain. Endless convoys of troops and equipment, often tying up public transportation routes, signaled a crisis that approached that of World War II. Overhead, the flights of jet fighters and bombers reinforced the perception that war was imminent, while the hasty erection of defensive and offensive missile batteries along public thoroughfares and in remote sections of the Florida countryside was a clear indication that the Sunshine State would be the first target should war break out. Even the lukewarm efforts of state and local authorities to provide structures for civil defense added to the sense of impending violence."--Page 4 of cover.
Subject
  • 1900-1999
  • Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
  • Crise de Cuba, oct. 1962
  • Florida > History > 20th century
  • Floride > Histoire > 20e siècle
  • Florida
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-123).
Contents
Chapter 1 -- Mystery in the Skies: Orlando's McCoy Air Force Base and the Cuban Missile Crisis by Joy Wallace Dickinson / Chapter 2 -- The Cuban Missile Crisis: Along the Space Coast by Nick Wynne / Chapter 3 -- The Cuban Missile Crisis: Palm Beach County by Janet DeVries Naughton / Chapter 4 -- The Cuban Missile Crisis: the Suncoast and Tampa Bay Region by James Anthony Schnur / Chapter 5 -- Southeast Florida during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 by Joe Knetsch / Chapter 6 -- The Cuban Missile Crisis Along the Northeast Coast by Robert Redd / Chapter 7 -- Civil Defense and Governor Farris Bryant by Joe Knetsch / Chapter 8 -- A Communist Cuba with Missiles on West Florida Minds by Dean Debolt / Conclusion -- by Nick Wynne.
ISBN
  • 9781478702474
  • 1478702478
OCLC
  • on1021050701
  • SCSB-14652243
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library