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