Dear GMU History students,

Please see the announcement below about an upcoming event here on campus.  The event is free, and students are welcome to attend.  Here's the direct link, which also contains information about pre-registration:

http://chss.gmu.edu/events/2842

I hope you can come!

Brian Platt
Chair, Department of History and Art History
George Mason University


THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS, 50 YEARS LATER

Harris Theater
October 27, 2012, 10:00 AM to 2:15 PM

The Department of History and Art History, in conjunction with the Cold War Museum, will convene a distinguished panel of historians, authors, and first hand participants to discuss and commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Cuban missile crisis. This free half day program will include:

  �a keynote address given by Sergei Khrushchev, son of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and author of Nikita Krushchev and the Creation of a Superpower

  �a roundtable discussion between Martin J. Sherwin, Pulitzer Prize winning author and George Mason Unversity History Professor, Michael Dobbs, Washington Post reporter and author of One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Krushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War, and Svetlana Savranskaya, editor of The Soviet Cuban Missile Crisis and the National Security Archive's director for Russian Archives and Institutes

  �accounts from U-2 pilot Colonel Buddy Brown (USAF, Ret.) and F8U-1P Crusader pilot Lt. Commander Tad Riley (USN, Ret.), who overflew Cuban SA-2 missile sites during the crisis, and from photographic interpreter Dino Brugioni, who briefed President Kennedy on the photos taken over Cuba
  
Admission is free and is open to the public, though pre-registration is required.