50th
Anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis Conference
and Book
Signing with Sergei Khrushchev
(FAIRFAX,
VA, August 29, 2012)--The
Cold War Museum and the Department
of History & Art History at George Mason University (GMU)
will convene a distinguished panel of historians, authors, and
first-hand participants to discuss and commemorate the 50th
Anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis. This
FREE
half-day program will
be held Saturday, October 27, 2012, 10:00am, in the Harris Theater at
GMU, 4400 University Drive, Fairfax, VA. Pre-registration required.
“This
is a unique opportunity,”
said Gary Powers, Jr., Founder
and Chairman Emeritus of The Cold War Museum, “to
experience first-hand accounts by renowned experts on the facts,
events, strategies and challenging decisions of what many experts
agree was the most dangerous and volatile time in history.”
Sergei
Khrushchev, son of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, and author
of "Nikita
Khrushchev and the Creation of a Superpower,"
will provide the keynote address. Following Khrushchev’s remarks,
the following experts will conduct a panel discussion: Martin
J. Sherwin, Pulitzer Prize winning author about Robert J.
Oppenheimer and GMU History Professor; Michael
Dobbs, Washington Post reporter and author of “One
Minute to Midnight;”
and Svetlana
Savranskaya,
editor of “The
Soviet Cuban Missile Crisis”
and National Security Archives Director for Russian Archives and
Institutes.
U-2
pilot Colonel Buddy Brown (USAF, Ret.) and F8U-1P Crusaders pilot Lt.
Commander Tad Riley
(USN, Ret.), who
overflew Cuban SA-2 missile sites during the crisis, will discuss
their mission objectives and recollections. Photographic interpreter
Dino Brugioni, who briefed President Kennedy on the photos taken over
Cuba, will provide a dramatic first-hand account of the
behind-the-scenes activities of the Kennedy administration during the
crisis.
Immediately
following the conference there will be a book signing with Sergei
Khrushchev, Dino Brugioni (“Eyeball
to Eyeball”),
Michael Dobbs, Ken Jack ("Blue
Moon over Cuba: Aerial Reconnaissance During the Cuban Missile
Crisis"),
Svetlana
Savranskaya,
Harvey Simon
(“The
Madman Theory”),
and David Stokes ("Camelot’s
Cousin").
Sponsors
include David Stokes, Syneca
Research Group, Inc., and Whit Williams. For more information on
sponsorship opportunities, breakfast with the panelists, or to
register for the conference visit
www.coldwar.org/articles/60s/CubanMissileCrisis50thAnniversary.asp.
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Cold War Museum, founded in 1996, honors Cold War veterans and
preserves Cold War history. It is dedicated to education,
preservation and research about the global political and ideological
confrontations between East and West from the end of World War II to
the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
