THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS: THREE MEN GO TO WAR
PBS, 8:00 p.m. ET
Fifty years ago, the U.S. blockade of ships heading into Cuba, to protest the construction of Soviet missile bases within 100 miles of the Florida cost, precipitated the Cuban Missile crisis, the closest our planet has come, to this point, to nuclear war. I was a kid in South Florida at the time, but I wasn’t worried: We had been taught to duck and cover, and hide under our school desks. This new documentary profiles the three men who sat at their country’s most powerful desks, without ducking beneath them: John F. Kennedy, Nikita Khrushchev and Fidel Castro. Check local listings.