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Note 1: "4 track (Stereo) Oct 1962 But Radio and TV recorded same time. ch 1. Play of week - "Tiger at gates" 2. Hamlet. ch 2. Also discussion of JFK Caster. 2. Music S/reel/v3. #2 1. Hamlet, to end chopped. English production. 2. Long John - Battle against Pain."; Note 2: CD 1: Cuban missile crisis news; interesting commercial about why women should read the NYTimes. A play. CD 2: play cont'd. CD 3: play then more Cuba news. CD 4: concert from Helsinki/ Sebelius. WBAI. Then news/talk show about Mississippi folk music. CD 5: Hamlet. CD 6: cont'd. CD 7: Some yiddish (I think) song. Then more folk music. WBAI. News. Then radio changes to WNYC. CD 8; radio/ someone changing channels. LJN show about pain management. CD 9: LJN cont'd. CD 3: WBAI Pacifica Radio. Reference to Pres. Kennedy's speech "yesterday evening" about situation in Cuba (presumably when he announced the quarantine). Female moderator (name not given): "I think that no one who heard the president's statement doubts the gravity of the situation in which we now all find ourselves." Discussion panel: Prof. Carl [Emil] Schorske, History Dept. of University of California; Seymour Martin Lipset, Director of the Institute International Studies at U of C; Marshall Windmiller, Asst. Prof. of International Relations at San Francisco State, co-editor of Liberal Democrat; Trevor Thomas, KPFA manager. Windmiller: I expected the president to announce that we were going to launch an invasion [on Cuba]. Therefore I feel that we have something of a breather in that the main action that he has taken is only a blockade. However, this does not by any means put me at ease, for the situation is enormously tense, and the tension will very likely continue to mount rather than decrease, and we are I think in very grave danger of having the outbreak of a war over Cuba. For now the question arises, 'will the Soviet Union run the blockade in an attempt to continue shipments of weapons into Cuba?'" CD 7: WBAI. News w/ Edward P. Morgan. "President Kennedy tonight signed the momentous proclamation ordering a selective blockade of Cuba. The order becomes effective at 10 o'clock Eastern daylight time tomorrow. After that hour Soviet ships and vessels of other nations may be halted on the high seas, searched, and seized if found to carry offensive weapons bound for Castro. The document is the bluntest challenge to Soviet imperialism since at least the Korean War, possibly the strongest US challenge ever made to the Communist hierarchy. At present, more than 25 Communist block ships are reported steaming toward Cuba; if any ship refuses to halt and be searched, US warships are instructed to sink it. It is not known when or if that grave encounter may occur…This afternoon in the Security Council, US Ambassador Adlai Stevenson called for action now to halt what he charged is a vast plan by Russia to win world domination by piecemeal aggression…The Kremlin…accused the US of taking a step along the road of unleashing a thermonuclear war…The opponents however seemed a tiny minority compared with those supporting the president's action. The White House said it had received thousands of telegrams running 12 to 1 in favor of the limited blockade. It is doubtful however that the public has immediately grasped the full implications of the blockade, which, whether or not legal scholars consider it an act of war, does require enormous military support." Morgan comments, speaking about himself in the third person. He was on a political fact-finding trip in the Midwest when he was called back to Washington hours after Kennedy's proclamation. He boards a plane in Milwaukee, headed for Washington via Detroit. "In Detroit, two silent young sailors got aboard, called back to their ship stations in Norfolk, Virginia. Was this it? Would it be battle stations for them, and holocaust for everybody? How incredible! How impossible it seemed as the airplane swam through the gently tossing sea of night air, over the houses darkened on the sleeping land beneath. Outside the plane window with stars as their running lights, peaceful clouds sailed the night sea too. It had been a long day for the political fact-finder, stretching from the tidy, rich, productive fields of rural Wisconsin at sunup to the predawn darkness over the national capital nearly 24 hours later. It had been a long day, but the man had to wonder if now not only the days of autumn but the days of civilization itself were getting a little shorter." "…the man went home, thinking some positions might have to melt on our side too, not to appease, but to adjust if possible to reality in such a way that nuclear war, whose prospects after all were just as horrible tonight as they were the day before yesterday, could be avoided. 'Darling,' the man's wife said over a drink, 'the tulip bulbs came and I'm going to plant them whether we ever see them or not. But do you think I should get supplies for the basement, or pick up and take Mary somewhere?' 'I don't know,' the tired man said, 'We'll have to play it by ear.' This is Edward P. Morgan, saying goodnight from Washington." WBAI announcer, following Morgan's report: "The president's action came at the height of a congressional election, when he was under considerable criticism for being indecisive about Cuba by the Republican opposition. One such Republican, presently running for reelection, is New York's Congressman John V.[Vliet] Lindsay [who went on to become mayor of NYC 1966-73]. Recently Congressman Lindsay visited the home of WBAI volunteer Jay Albrecht, who had invited some Democrats over to discuss campaign issues including Cuba. The congressman permitted Mr. Albrecht to record his off-the-cuff remarks to this informal gathering. We are presenting this recording at this time because we believe it gives a unique view of the working candidate speaking off the record on Cuba." "…where the thing got fouled up was because of the enormous indecision and uh, and, the political difference within the power structure of the government as to how far to go." (probably Lindsay speaking, goes on to criticize Kennedy.) "As near as legislators are able to make out, the intelligence on the thing was good, but what really fouled up, was that those who had decided to pull the trigger thereafter lost their nerve and didn't dare go forward with the air cover and all the rest of it…God knows, uh, I think the terrible error was committed in pulling the trigger. If Eisenhower's administration had made an error in building it up, that was an error, but it should have been wiped out, because the new administration, the new president came in committed to leadership and the reversal of anti-Latin American policies. So, they should have wiped it out, stopped, instead they pulled the trigger, and having done that, having pulled the trigger, my God they should have finished it." [Shortly after this Smith changes stations, finally settling on a woman singing in Italian (maybe Spanish?).] Station change again (WNYC 93.9) to another news report on Cuba. After national report, local perspective: "Governor Rockefeller ordered a crash program to put the state in a maximum posture of readiness…Mayor Wagner summoned his top commissioners and other high-ranking political leaders to consider civil defense requirements in the city. Rockefeller ordered a speedup in the stockpiling of food, water, and medicine for the state's grammar school children, announced plans to recruit a state militia in the event the National Guard is called into federal service, and called on local school districts for immediate action on fallout shelter programs.";