The Missiles of October

The Missiles of October is a 1974 docudrama madefortelevision play about the Cuban Missile Crisis. The title evokes the book The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman about the missteps among the great powers and the failed chances to give an opponent a graceful way out, which led to the First World War. The teleplay introduced William Devane as John F. Kennedy and cast Martin Sheen as United States Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. The script is based on Robert Kennedys book Thirteen Days A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

The Missiles of October gave the US general public its first look behind the scenes at the inner workings, disagreements, and ultimate consensus of Kennedys administration to blockade Cuba, rather than attempt to invade to dislodge the justdiscovered, only partially completed Soviet nuclear missile emplacements in Cuba. It details US attempts to give the Soviets room to negotiate without appearing to capitulate, and also periodically depicts Khrushchev reporting progress of the events to his Communist Party cohorts.Then VicePresident Lyndon B. Johnson, who was a member of EXCOMM, is not portrayed by any actor in the docudrama. ........

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