Everything you think you know about those 13 days is wrong.
Customers in the electronics section of a department store watch as JFK addresses the nation, October 22, 1962.
BENJAMIN SCHWARZ | JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2013 ISSUE | U.S.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
BENJAMIN SCHWARZ is the former literary and national editor for The Atlantic. He is theauthor of a forthcoming book on Winston Churchill.
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