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Presentación de la "Crisis de Misiles de Cuba - 50° Aniversario" en el Museo de Aviación Naval el Sábado 20 de Octubre 2012, 10 a.m.
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“Cuban Missile Crisis – 50th Anniversary” at the National Naval Aviation Museum 0 a.m. on Saturday, October 20, 2012 Pensacola, Fla.– As part of the Naval Aviation Museum Foundation’s Discovery Saturday series, please join historian and author Kenneth V. Jack as he presents the “Cuban Missile Crisis” at 10 a.m., Saturday, October 20. October will mark the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis. One of the forgotten, yet crucial details, of the crisis are the low-level reconnaissance missions - designated as Operation Blue Moon - flown by US Naval, Marine Corps and Air Force pilots that proved to President Kennedy that the Russians had moved missiles into Cuba. Ken Jack’s new book, Blue Moon Over Cuba, began as the unfinished memoirs of the commander of the naval squadron that flew the top-secret missions, Captain William B. Ecker. Ecker was the lead aviator on the first mission and went on to play a leading role in the reconnaissance flights throughout the crisis. The book was completed by historian Ken Jack who will lead the Discovery Saturday presentation in the Naval Aviation Museum’s F-8 Crusader aircraft located in Hangar Bay One. A book signing of Jack’s book, Blue Moon Over Cuba (Osprey, August 2012), will follow the presentation. Books will be available for purchase at the event. Ken Jack enlisted in the Navy in 1959 was first trained as a Navy photographer and later as a photographic-electronics technician responsible for maintaining aircraft photo electronics equipment. He participated in the implementation of the forward-firing KA-45 camera, which gave unique capabilities for capturing detailed photographic intelligence of the Soviet missile sites being installed in Cuba. He led the first carrier testing of the camera and its night-photography capabilities aboard the super carrier USS Forrestal (CVA-59) only a few months before the Cuban Missile Crisis erupted in October 1962. “Discovery Saturday” is FREE and open to the public. The National Naval Aviation Museum features FREE admission and a full slate of events throughout the year. For a complete list of events, exhibits and attractions at the Museum, visit NavalAviationMuseum.org or call the Naval Aviation Museum Foundation at (850) 453-2389 or (800) 327-5002. |