One of the first motifs I encountered was the use of questions. Even with the first iterations, they came off loaded and rhetorical. To my surprise, when I tracked the use of questions, there was an enormous difference between who asked the questions. Remarkably, Kennedy only asked 3 out of the 167 quesitons posed in the exchanges. 

 

However, those statistics are deceptive. 

 

How did the question operate holistically within the exchanges? For the most part it was either suggesting the objectivity of the other's misconduct or more casually asking them to see the other side.

 

It's even more confusing and opaque. It's clear from a close read that the public archive is missing more of Kennedy's exchanges than Khrushchev's. (ie. Large gaps of Kennedy and U.S. Department replies sandwiched between double (or multiple) loaves of Khrushchev responding to, what the archive would present, thin air). - This is another project

 

So we're likely still only be getting a partial-carefully editted image.