Throwback Sunday: Mama Raven Recalls Living Through the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962

What’s up to my salubrious space racers and mercurial Motor City mastodons! (That’s gotta be a Roller Derby team btw)

It’s October 14, 1962 in Suburban Detroit. John Glenn has just months earlier become the first American to orbit the Earth. John F. Kennedy in May has asked Congress for $531 million dollars (equivalent to $4.6 billion today) to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade. The first Walmart discount store is opened up in Bentonville, Arkansas. Andy Warhol paints a can of Campbell Soup. And, an American U-2 Spy Plane doing reconnaissance over Cuba captures photographic proof of the Soviets installing nuclear missile bases on the island nation, just 90 miles off the coast of Florida.

Unbeknownst to the American public, including my Mom, who was celebrating her 13th birthday that day, the Cuban Missile Crisis has begun.

Last episode we examined the Cuban Missile Crisis from a geopolitical and logistical perspective. This episode we look at the events from a personal, emotional and psychological perspective.

To achieve this mighty feat of righteous nostalgia we turn to my wonderful Mom, who was kind enough to join the pod and take a trip down memory lane, helping us to re-live those tense days in middle October 1962.

This is a fun one folks! Jump in, do the Mashed Potato, or the Twist, or the Watusi, and enjoy this diner-lit, drive-in episode of a remarkable chapter from a bygone era.

Big Thank You to Mama Tanner for guiding us on this journey!

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TRACK LIST FOR THIS EPISODE

The Orlons – Wah Watusi (1962)
Dee Dee Sharp – Mashed Potato Time (1962)
The Crystals – Uptown (1962)
Mindful Vibes – Episode 08 (Mix)
Cerrone – Funk Makossa
Mary Wells – The One Who Loves You (1962)
Estas Tonne – Cuban Heart (Mix)
Donna De Lory – Om Namah Shivaya
Dee Dee Sharp – Gravy (For My Mashed Potatoes) 

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