in the end kennedy finessed khruschchev.vately agreeing to remove missiles from turkey and the crisis was over. >> we had never been as close to nuclear war as we were in 1962. >> today the players are different. this time it's the u.s. and israel wary of a nuclear iran. but the fear is just as genuine, which begs the question -- >> what would jfk do? >> he would being intensely interested in finding a space, an alternative that might have the characteristic of being better than attacking or better than letting iran become a nuclear state. >> today's confrontation with iran is like the cuban missile crisis in slow motion. big difference of course is that 50 years ago there were only two major players, the u.s. and the soviets. today there are three. the u.s., israel and iran, which makes a secret face saving solution like the one reached on cuba a lot more difficult. >> bill, we've learned over the years more about what the soviets intention were for putting those missiles in cuba in the first place, right? >> that's right.

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president jfk and his aides worked to avoid a confrontation with russian president khruschchev.iet missiles left cuba and the u.s. dismantled its own missile installations in turkey. a new recall, targeting a popular dog treat and the first . >>> this giant geyser erupts r after a car crash into a fire hydrant. this hydrant the fire department responded to the scene and capped the hydrant. >>> we have more details about that boat rescue on san francisco bay that we first told you about last night on the 10:00 news, the coast guard still has not released the cause of the accident. which threatened to sink a charter boat carrying 22 people celebrating a bachelor party. the boat, the neptune, colloided with something near alcaraz island around 8:30 friday night. san francisco police and the coast guard quickly rescue the passengers. crew managed to keep the boat afloat long enough to get it to a boatyard in sausalito. >> wildlife experts in lake tahoe are asking boaters to be patient as they blanket about five underwater acres with a thin rubber barrier aimed at suffocating the asi

kennedy, castro, and khruschchev were the main players. who was his soviet counterpart.omyko, c, or d. stay tuned and we'll tell you the correct answer. don't forget tonight at 8:00 and 11:00 p.m. eastern and pacific, cn th win will broadcast global lessons: the dw ps roadmap for powering america. >>> now you can read his writing in book form. he has a great new book, the signal and the noise, why so many predictions fail, but some don't. in it he explains how to think about statistics, probabilities, and polls. oh, and he throws in a chapter on chess as well. it's a once wonderland. >>> and now for the last look. kim john un's wife has. been seen in over 40 days. it turns out she isn't the only thing that's disappeared from north korea recently. this stern looking portrait of kim sung has kept watch. as these before and after photos show, the great leader has been removed and these pajts of communist icons, lennon and marx, ousted. so kim unsung's square has had a makeover. what does appear to be in fashion this fall, a happier kim il-sung and a cheery king unjill. it's