Brett Ortmann Riggs will present “The Cuban Missile Crisis” at 6:00 PM on August 8 at the Museum of Coastal Carolina. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, leaders of the US and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the instillation of nuclear-armed Soviet missile deployment in Cuba, just 90 miles from the United States. Find out how close we came to the Cold War escalating into a full-scale nuclear war.
Brett Riggs Ortmann is a native of southeastern North Carolina and currently lives in Shallotte. He has a Bachelor’s degree in history and a Master’s degree in library science. His historical specialty is the colonial era and the early American Republic.
The Museum of Coastal Carolina is located at 21 East Second Street, Ocean Isle Beach, NC. Admission to the museum is free for members. Non-member all-day admission is $9.50 for adults, $8.50 for seniors, $7.50 for children (3-12), and free for age 2 and under. A 7-day vacation pass is just $75 for two adults and up to four children. Free admission for active duty military and disabled veterans plus up to one guest, must include military ID cardholder. For more information about the Museum of Coastal Carolina, call 910-579-1016 or visit www.MuseumPlanetarium.org.
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