In the fall of 1963 a tragedy struck this country that heated up the american citizens to the point that they wanted their government to start the nuclear war. On November 22, 1963 President John F Kennedy was shot in Fort Worth Texas while traveling in a motorcade to Dallas This assassination of this very popular and well liked president enraged the public who believed the at the Russians were involved with the assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald. This heated things up a bit because the public thought that this was enough cause to start a war and urged the US government to retaliate which they refused to do because of the lack of proof. The people finally cooled down once the government finally proved the USSR was not involved.