65. By the time of the Cuban missile crisis, the Turkish missiles were obsolete.
JFK had wanted to get rid of them but once the Cuban crisis began he felt it would be viewed as the US being "soft." They were taken down as part of the ultimate agreement between the US and Kruschev on Cuba.
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