No specific date is given, but from dialog we learn it is the fall of 1960, the start of the school year.
Remember this is an election year, Kennedy -vs- Nixon, the forth televised debate was held on 21 October 1960.
If you know the film... after the Albatross leaves the port where the boys missed the dawn sailing of the Albatross the Christmas decorations are up, and next port of call is Grenada (the girls' school party scene). So time in film has moved to after Christmas 1960, possibly into early January 1961.
However, in between departing from the island where the boys missed the boat, and before arriving in Grenada, there is a scene where a few of the boys are on deck near the wheel, and the radio is playing.
It is John F. Kennedy's 22 October 1962 speech to the nation about the Cuban Missile Crisis. (No WS youtube clip matches this scene, but it is at 0:47:40 if you have the DVD, which, by the way, was re-released on 17 Dec 2019. Just sayin...)
Anachronism... or was this done deliberately. White Squall is foundational to whatever is going on with Q. If it is not an anachronism...
Here is that portion of the speech transcript which can be heard in the background of the on-screen action:
"...unlike that of the Soviets since the end of World War II--demonstrates that we have no desire to dominate or conquer any other nation or impose our system upon its people. Nevertheless, American citizens have become adjusted to living daily on the Bull's-eye of Soviet missiles located inside the U.S.S.R. or in submarines.
In that sense, missiles in Cuba add to an already clear and present danger--although it should be noted the nations of Latin America have never previously been subjected to a potential nuclear threat.
But this secret, swift, and extraordinary buildup of Communist missiles--in an area well known to have a special and historical relationship to the United States and the nations of the Western Hemisphere, in violation of Soviet assurances, and in defiance of American and hemispheric policy--this sudden," ...
Here is the opening scene of White Squall.
Mystic Connecticut, 1960
https://youtu.be/ZULUvJiFeFM?t=190
No specific date is given, but from dialog we learn it is the fall of 1960, the start of the school year.
Remember this is an election year, Kennedy -vs- Nixon, the forth televised debate was held on 21 October 1960.
If you know the film... after the Albatross leaves the port where the boys missed the dawn sailing of the Albatross the Christmas decorations are up, and next port of call is Grenada (the girls' school party scene). So time in film has moved to after Christmas 1960, possibly into early January 1961.
However, in between departing from the island where the boys missed the boat, and before arriving in Grenada, there is a scene where a few of the boys are on deck near the wheel, and the radio is playing.
It is John F. Kennedy's 22 October 1962 speech to the nation about the Cuban Missile Crisis. (No WS youtube clip matches this scene, but it is at 0:47:40 if you have the DVD, which, by the way, was re-released on 17 Dec 2019. Just sayin...)
Anachronism... or was this done deliberately. White Squall is foundational to whatever is going on with Q. If it is not an anachronism...
https://youtu.be/yKcxPpwp5i4?t=4 (click and pause)
Here is that portion of the speech transcript which can be heard in the background of the on-screen action:
"...unlike that of the Soviets since the end of World War II--demonstrates that we have no desire to dominate or conquer any other nation or impose our system upon its people. Nevertheless, American citizens have become adjusted to living daily on the Bull's-eye of Soviet missiles located inside the U.S.S.R. or in submarines.
In that sense, missiles in Cuba add to an already clear and present danger--although it should be noted the nations of Latin America have never previously been subjected to a potential nuclear threat.
But this secret, swift, and extraordinary buildup of Communist missiles--in an area well known to have a special and historical relationship to the United States and the nations of the Western Hemisphere, in violation of Soviet assurances, and in defiance of American and hemispheric policy--this sudden," ...
(scene ends)
https://youtu.be/u07rkwHTPLk?t=408 (time stamp / match portion in White Squall)
https://youtu.be/u07rkwHTPLk (full speech / no time stamp)
Access to the radio broadcast and (scroll down) to a full transcript in link below.
https://www.jfklibrary.org/learn/about-jfk/historic-speeches/address-during-the-cuban-missile-crisis