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Cuban Missile Crisis and the Media
October 28, 2002
Sander Vanocur White House correspondent
Robert Pierpoint White house correspondent
Marvin Kalb former CBS Moscow Bureau Chief
Tom Smith pollster, National Opinion Research Center
Newton Minow former FCC Chair

A panel that includes White House correspondents Sander Vanocur and Robert Pierpoint, former CBS Moscow Bureau Chief Marvin Kalb, pollster Tom Smith, and former FCC Chair Newton Minow discusses the role the media played during the Missile Crisis in the attempt to avert nuclear war. Should our country face another confrontation of this magnitude how would today's media respond?

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