Article: Weird history. (history scholars met in Cuba with some of the participants in the 1962 Cuban missile crisis to determine what really happened) (Brief Article)

In a conference room in Havana, six of John F. Kennedy's top aides, including Robert McNamara and Arthur Schlesinger, sit with Fidel Castro, Cuba's dictator, and his brother, Army chief Rail Castro. Even a few Russians are there. It could be one of Oliver Stone's mangled recreations of the 1960s, this time about the Cuban missile crisis. In fact, the scene took place last week, as the participants met with scholars in an extraordinary conference to hash out what really happened when the world came close to Armageddon nearly 30 years ago. For the Cubans, there was another motivation: to make the case for normalizing U.S. relations.

The meeting, organized by James ...

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