Watching Adam Carolla talk to Brad Meltzer about his latest book.
Which reminds me of when I first arrived in New York, as a young kid, in September 1960, just before the first Kennedy-Nixon debate on the 26th September. Dad was
Australian representative at the United Nations. We were in a hotel on East 22nd Street, just before we decamped to suburban New Rochelle.
We watched the debate on a little black and white box, in our hotel room. For us it was the first time we'd even seen television, which at the time hadn't arrived in Australia. So it was kind of magic.
And to see these two men, battle it out on television. Magic.
This was just before Kruschev banged his shoe, at the United Nations, declaring, angrily that "we will bury you". As in communism, the Soviet Union would bury us, the West and US.
Then we went to Germany where we were, Dad in the Australian Embassy in the then capital Bonn, when the Communists started building the Berlin Wall, in August 1961.
Then not long after, I to Canberra, where I heard about the Kennedy assassination on 22 November 1963.
Brad Meltzer reveals an earlier attempt on Kennedy in his new book. I don't know about it at all. Meltzer says we don't know about it because news was overshadowed by the Cuban Missile Crisis.
What a crazy few years. Kennedy-Nixon, assassinations, brink of nuclear war, Berlin wall. Kruschev's shoe.
Hence, buying the book. The JFK Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Kennedy―and Why It Failed
