final memorandum regarding the war in Vietnam to President Johnson, arguing that Johnson's plan of attack was too limited in scope to successfully defeat the Hanoi regime; he further asserted that public support (in the United States and abroad) for any effort in North Vietnam would erode if the plan went unchanged: Other Throughout his career, McCone served on numerous commissions that made recommendations on issues as diverse as civilian applications of military technology and the Watts Riots. In 1987, McCone was presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Ronald Reagan. Death John A. McCone died on February 14, 1991, of cardiac arrest at his home in Pebble Beach, California. He was 89 years old. Honors and awards McCone Hall at the University of California, Berkeley campus is named in McCone's honor. In popular culture McCone was portrayed in several different docudramas about the Cuban Missile Crisis, by Keene Curtis in the television production The Missiles of October (1974) and Peter White in the theatrical film Thirteen Days (2000). In the 2020 film The Courier, he is played by Željko Ivanek. In the film X-Men: First Class (2011) he was played by Matt Craven. Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater and its sequel, Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops feature an unnamed DCI modeled physically after McCone. See also Bechtel Corporation Notes References Chapters 7–8, and pp. 321–322. Constructing Cassandra : the Social Construction of Strategic Surprise at the Central Intelligence Agency, 1947- 2001 https://catalogue.kent.ac.uk/Record/764718 External links Annotated Bibliography for John A. McCone from the Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues Papers of John A. McCone, Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library Guide to the John A. McCone Papers at The Bancroft Library Announcement of the Recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom FBI files on John McCone John McCone biography by chief CIA historian David Robarge |- |- 1902 births 1991 deaths 20th-century American businesspeople American spies Businesspeople from San Francisco Chairmen of the United States Atomic Energy Commission Directors of the Central Intelligence Agency Eisenhower administration cabinet members Place of death missing Politicians from San Francisco Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients UC Berkeley College of Engineering alumni