This speech was delivered at the height of the Cold War<span> – an appeal for peace at a time when what President Eisenhower had described as the Military-Industrial complex was much more interested in weapons and war than peace. It was also a time when President Kennedy was sending personal representatives to Cuba in order to eventually achieve a rapprochement with Fidel Castro. The CIA was aware of these contacts by tapping the telephones of the representatives – and its leaders and right-wing friends, and above all the anti-Castro Cubans, were fiercely opposed. They were also opposed to Kennedy's plans to withdraw from Viet Nam. It was also a time when Robert F. Kennedy was making it hot for the mafia. JFK was assassinated five months later. [Editor] </span>
Why did the British set their sites on Baltimore for attack? Because it was one of America’s major seaports Because it was the capitol of Maryland Because President Madison moved there after the White House was burned down
