You'll never believe how close we came.
The story of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962—the nuclear standoff with the USSR sparked by the discovery by the Americans of missile bases established on the Soviet-allied island of Cuba.
Kenneth O'Donnell
John F. Kennedy
Captain of USS Pierce
Robert McNamara
Dean Acheson
Gen. Marshall Carter
Robert F. Kennedy
Maj. Rudolf Anderson
Anotoly Dobrinyn
Arthur Lundahl
Gen. Maxwell Taylor
Orville Dryfoos
Richard J. Daley
Cmdr. William B. Ecker
Helen O'Donnell
Gen. Curtis LeMay
Walter Sheridan
Young FBI Agent
McGeorge Bundy
Adm. George Anderson