409. JFK: The Cuban Missile Crisis (Part 3)

Hello and welcome to Empire with me, Anita Arnold. Now, if you have listened to the first two episodes of our John F. Kennedy miniseries, then you'll know we covered quite a lot of ground, haven't we? I mean we left you with a young Jack Kennedy who has been read his last writes. He's been revived from a coma that actually many thought he wouldn't make it out of. He gets to the national convention where he is put up in this beauty parade for vice president. It creates a huge stir. He doesn't win, but do you know what the not winning and the way in which he conducts himself at that convention and afterwards puts him on the fast track. to the presidency. And the man telling us all about this is the wonderful Pulitzer Prize winning historian, Frederick Logal. Thank you again, Frederick, for for being with us. Oh, I'm so so pleased to see you. It's it's good to be back. And it's such a good story. And I thought, you know, we packed an awful lot into the last episode. Nothing compared to what we're going to get to this episode. So look, I mean we should

First of all, point out that volume one of your fabulous now three part series on JFK is out. And this period that we're gonna be talking about today is in volume two, which Frederick, where is it? Come on, where is it? When am I gonna be able to hold it, see it, and when are people gonna be able to read it? You're gonna be able to hold it uh in your hands in about

Well, in a few months. So it's deep in production. All set. It's just the final stages, uh, and then we will have volume two out in the world. Well, I'm I'm thrilled about this and I'm sure Netflix will be thrilled about this because if you did miss our our first two episodes, just know this. Uh Frederick is a friend of the stars now because his first volume is coming to a screen near you. Hanging out with Fastbender. Anyway, look back to JFK. So you know, we we left this with Jack Kennedy and his dad rolling up their sleeves going, right. to work. And this is off the back of losing

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