Lt. Alexey Raypenko: The man who shot Maj Anderson down

PBS

Dino Brugioni, former senior official at the National Photographic Interpretation Center, CIA, remembers "the most horrible day of my life" — October 27, 1962 — when he heard that one of the U.S. pilots was late returning from a mission. Brigadier General Gerald McIlmoyle talks about his former friend and boss, Major Rudolf Anderson, the only person killed by enemy fire during the Cuban Missile Crisis. And in the first-ever interview with the man who shot him down, Lieutenant Alexey Raypenko of the Soviet Army Anti-Aircraft Rocket Unit in Cuba reveals that he was ordered to press the final button to launch the SAM missiles that killed Major Anderson.