The Missiles of October

2h 30m

7.5

Based in part on Robert F. Kennedy's book, "Thirteen Days," this film profiles the Kennedy Administration's actions during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Cast

President John F. Kennedy

U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson

Howard Da Silva

Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev

U.N. Secretary-General U Thant

Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy

James T. Callahan

David Powers, Special Assistant to the President

John McCone, Director CIA

Charles Cyphers

Press Photographer

Theodore Sorensen, Special Counsel

Francis De Sales

Former Secretary of State Dean Acheson

David Ormsby-Gore, British Ambassador to U.S.

Gen. Maxwell Taylor, Army Chief of Staff

Richard Eastham

Gen. David M. Shoup, USMC Commandant

Gen. Curtis LeMay - Air Force Chief of Staff

Crew

Stanley R. Greenberg

Laurence Rosenthal

Original Music Composer