Cold War - Cuban Missile Crisis

My grandmother was a mother of four in '62  with a nervous feeling about what may happen next. Walter Cronkite from CBS had informed all of his listeners that Russian boats were bringing missiles to Cuba and that the US had to force Russia to turn their boats around. My grandmother remembers a specific picture that was taken above Cuba, from U-2 spy planes from the US that showed Russian missiles being deployed in Cuba. This picture made her feel threatened because of how close Cuba was and how there was no plan of escape for the people of the US. She remembers President Kennedy, Attorney General Robert Kennedy and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara frequently appearing on TV saying that the situation was very tense and they were trying to talk to Russia. Finally, the US Navy instituted a blockade against the Russian boats with fear Russia may shoot at the US Navy. They Russians then agreed to turn there ships away, and my grandmother felt a sign of relief that she wasn't going to die, and her children were going to be okay. She had said that she always wondered where she should go, and no one would say would ever mention the well-being of the US. She said she could barely sleep because she was so afraid of what may happen next. 

On a lighter note, a story she is telling me right at this moment is that she remembers when she was in Elementary School she would have air raid drills and people would yell, "duck and cover" in case of a nuclear attack on Russia. She remembers her father saying, "A lot of good that would do you to hide under a desk in a nuclear attack, we're not building a bomb shelter - I am building a tennis court." That took place in the '50s from her optimistic father before the Cuban Missile Crisis, and he wasn't aware of the severity of the situation.