This is not the case now and nor was it in the 1960’s when paper was king and to sell the paper, you had to have the best story possible with or without all the pieces. Some authors may have been told they had all the pieces from different officials but to see just how much of the puzzle they had, one has to look back over all the information given. Understanding can then be said to be flawed and once found out, can change the whole interpretation of a certain event. The challenge becomes allowing an interpretation or understanding to be changed. Adding more pieces to a puzzle that someone thought was already finished can be tricky. When looking at the Cuban Missile Crisis to find the truth and facts, one has to look at all the sources from all three sides, decipher the evidence and find the middle ground which is where the truth finally lies. If understanding seems to be the truth and is defended, then trying to change ones understanding of an event in history is a tough task to take on. This is just the task that some authors have decided to take on by playing the middle man and going straight to the heart of the sources themselves including Kennedy …show more content…
By removing all the knowledge one had beforehand of a certain event, this will enable to remove all biases that may have existed. These biases may have come from reliable sources who just had the wrong information or the lack of information and been biased without knowing it. These biases can be seen in the Newspapers from America during the 1960’s and during this crisis. The title of this article “Reds Speed Cuban Missile Buildup” shows that even the media were using slang and demeaning words like “Reds” to describe the Soviets. During this time only a limited amount of information was released to the public and the media was only able to get blurbs and small pieces of evidence that they had to turn into full blown stories. These were usually rushed to meet a deadline and would result in information not coming out completely truthful or misinterpreted. Since this form of news reached the most people during this time, it lead to the general understanding of the American public that the USSR was getting in position to attack America. This made the view very American, as no one wanted to check out why they had moved the missiles to Cuba. The American people during this time were much like students in a classroom. When a teacher is explaining a subject the student expects the teacher to be