The Cuban Missile Crisis October 1962 Key Figures in 1962
Robert “Bobby” F. Kennedy – Attorney General Steven Culp
Adlai Stevenson – U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Michael Fairman
Dean Rusk – Secretary of State Henry Strozier
Robert McNamara – Secretary of Defense Dylan Baker
Kenny O’Donnell – Special Assistant to the President Kevin Costner
Lyndon B. Johnson – U.S. Vice President Walter Adrian
Key Figures… John F. Kennedy – U.S. President (1 of 4 assassinated Presidents – Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley, and Kennedy) Bruce Greenwood
Andrei Gromyko – Minister for Foreign Affairs for the USSR Olek Krupa
Fidel Castro – Cuban Dictator (not shown in film)
Nikita Khrushchev – Soviet Premier
Pierre Salinger – Press Secretary Kelly Connell
Ted Sorensen – Special Counsel & Adviser to JFK Tim Kelleher
Dean Acheson – Secretary of State (under Truman) and Excomm Advisor Len Cariou
Jacqueline Kennedy – JFK’s wife Stephanie Romanov