Lectures For Lifelong Learners!

Little known story of President Kennedy and the U-2 Spy Plane pilot shot down over Cuba during Missile Crisis, based on Tougias’ bestseller Above & Beyond. In this slide program, Tougias chronicles how the pilots, stationed in Florida, made daring reconnaissance flights over Cuba and one pilot was shot down and killed. President Kennedy secretly audio recorded every meeting he held on the crisis and from those recordings as well as recently declassified CIA documents, the author surprises the audience with four little known events that put us on the brink of WWIII.