October 20, 2017
By Paragon News Director Paul Joseph –
Following a successful presentation in Sayre, “Missiles of Oklahoma” presenters are back with another seminar next week.
Southwestern Oklahoma State University in Weatherford will host its second of two, free “Missiles of Oklahoma” seminars next week. A healthy turn out heard the first one this past Monday night at SWOSU/Sayre.
Those that missed the first presentation can catch the second one on Thursday, October 26, featuring nationally-known author Michael Dobbs and SWOSU history instructor Landry Brewer.
The event coincides with the 55th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Dobbs and Brewer will speak in the Fine Arts Center at 7 p.m., and the public is invited.
The seminar’s genesis started with Brewer’s research and presentation on the several Atlas missile sites, which were active in southwestern Oklahoma during the early 1960’s. These missiles went on active alert during the crisis in October 1962.
Dobbs will speak about the Cuban Missile Crisis. He is a journalist and author of a best-selling book about the Cuban missile crisis, One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War.
As a reporter for The Washington Post, Dobbs witnessed anti-communist revolutions and wars in Yugoslavia, Poland, China and the Soviet Union and has written several books.
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