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The Cuban Missile Crisis
Adult
Thursday, September 10
11:00am - 12:00pm
Olmsted Falls Branch
Meeting Room A & B (54)Explore the tense days of October 1962, when the United States and the Soviet Union stood on the brink of nuclear war.
In October 1962, the United States and the Soviet Union came dangerously close to nuclear war. This presentation tells the whole story of how JFK, Nikita Khrushchev, Fidel Castro and many others eventually avoided starting World War III.
Carl Quatraro has spent his whole life in the Akron area. Carl retired in 2018 and now stays involved in his community by delivering entertaining and informative presentations to local libraries, senior and professional associations and retirement centers.
Olmsted Falls Branch
For 15 years until 1955, the Olmsted Falls Branch was located in Town Hall and shared a room with the Village Council in the Police Department. After later operating out of a 3,100-square-foot frame cottage donated by the Olmsted Community Church, the library moved to a site provided by the city and designed specifically for library use. Today, the branch offers a full-service drive-up window, community meeting space and cozy reading areas.