“Kennedy was wary of them,” said Harvard historian Fredrik Logevall, author of JFK: Coming of Age in the ... particularly Air Force Chief of Staff Curtis LeMay, the former head of U.S ...

Ralph D. Steakly, Lt. Col. Joe M. O'Grady, Maj. Richard S. Heyser and Gen. Curtis LeMay during the Cuban missile crisis. (Getty Images/Bettmann) A question for the future: In the post-Vietnam era ...

A year and a half later, JFK and McNamara found themselves in ... demands from hawks to obliterate North Vietnam—or, as Curtis LeMay put it, “bomb them into the Stone Age.” ...

On May 8, he piloted an RB-47E conducting an overflight photography mission, taking pictures of nine Soviet airfields for the head of the Strategic Air Command, General Curtis LeMay. The flight ...

Just weeks before, the general had promised ... a pre-emptive strike. LeMay, who believed that a nuclear war was enviable, would later try to persuade President John F Kennedy that he should ...

When presented to legendary Air Force general Curtis LeMay, the man behind America’s B-29 bombing raids in the Pacific Theater of World War II, he dismissed the massive 750,000-pound bomber ...

JFK, Attorney General Robert Kennedy and Secretary ... Ripper is based on Gen. Curtis “Bombs Away” LeMay. General LeMay oversaw the firebombing of Tokyo in 1945 and was the architect of ...

Gen. LeMay was a serious war-monger and NUTCASE ... yelled then Navy chief George Anderson upon hearing on October 28, 1962, how JFK "solved" the missile crisis. Adm. Anderson was the man ...

The following is how the crisis is unfolded, in part by the JFK Presidential Library ... saved the world from incredible destruction. General Curtis LeMay of the Joint Chiefs had told Kennedy ...

The example JFK held that afternoon in the White House ... On July 4, 1960, the U.S. Air Force Vice Chief of Staff, Gen. Curtis LeMay, test fired Model 601 Serial No. 000106 during a barbeque ...