The Cuban Missile CrisisOctober 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