CBS News Radio flashback: 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis

For 13 days in October of 1962, the world stood getting ready to nuclear conflict because the U.S. and the Soviet Union feuded over Soviet missiles saved in Cuba, simply off the coast of Florida. Caitlin Huey-Burns introduces a particular bulletin that interrupted CBS News Radio’s programming.

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