1962 the cars continued to evolve as more compacts appeared and sold well in the US.
The Cold War continued to worsen when the Russians placed Ballistic Missiles on Cuban land just 90 miles away from the coast of Florida in and JFK called the bluff by threatening war unless they were removed which they were but for a short time the world was on the brink of nuclear war and self destruction.
The president then set a goal of landing a man on the moon before the end of the decade and became more involved in politics in Southeast Asia by training South Vietnamese pilots.
Folk music was evolving into protest music thanks to young artists like Bob Dylan and the birth of Surfing music by the beach boys grew in popularity meanwhile in England the Beatles record the single “Love Me Do”. The new hit on TV for that year was “The Beverly Hillbillies” and the first of the James Bond movies “Dr No” was an instant success, some of the other movies released included “Spartacus” and “El Cid”.
Wow..were you around then? it sounds like you were.
“JFK called the bluff “
JFK did not know that there were several live nuke warheads on Cuba. The Russian commander there was urging Khrushchev to use them or lose them, while LeMay was ordering the B52s to head for Russian airspace then turn back, then turn towards Russia, which JFK did not find out about until later. We were closer to the brink than most know because of JFKs stupidity and reliance on the Attorney General’s advice (his brother) discussed in a WDC cafe.
And to resolve it we agreed to dismantle our Turkish bases, close many “listening posts”, and stop the silly concept of Civil Defense, as well as several other frank concessions we called “victory”. The Russians promised to remove missiles, but not launchers, from Cuba.
The Russians then flew armed bombers to Cuban airstrips, flying them down our coast so we’d be sure to notice.
Those dang long-hairs!