During the Cuban Missile Crisis, General Groves and Colonel Lomax sought out Doc Brown, a scientist who had impressed Groves during his time on the Manhattan Project. Groves had thought that if anyone could invent time travel, he could. However, upon arriving at the Brown Mansion on October 24, 1962, the pair had discovered that it had burned down on August 1st. Goldie Wilson let them know that most people in Hill Valley considered him an insurance thief.