How the Cold War shaped David McLean’s life
Popular Newcastle bookseller David McLean came to Australia from the US with his parents in 1963, fleeing the shadows cast by the Cuban missile crisis. Here are some of David's recollections: David McLean was in his second-last year of high school in Lincoln, Nebraska, when then US President John F. Kennedy appeared on television to warn the nation that the USSR was placing nuclear missiles on Cuba and that the USA had no option but to take firm action. The news filled millions of Americans with dread, and David's parents - his father had been a…