and in return promises not to invade or assist in the invasion of Cuba. Dobrynin insists that the U.S. must also remove all Jupiter missiles from Turkey, on the border of the Soviet Union. Bobby says that a quid pro quo is not possible, but in exchange for Khrushchev removing all the missiles from Cuba, there will be a secret understanding that the U.S. will remove all of its "obsolete" missiles from Turkey within six months as part of a pre-scheduled plan. The Soviets announce on Sunday that they will remove their missiles from Cuba, averting a war that could have escalated to the use of nuclear weapons. The film ends with President Kennedy dictating a letter of condolence to the family of the reconnaissance pilot, Rudolf Anderson, who was shot down over Cuba as part of the preparations for the invasion, and the Kennedy brothers and O'Donnell outside of the Oval Office as actual audio of President Kennedy's commencement speech at American University played in the background. Cast Bruce Greenwood as President John F. Kennedy Steven Culp as Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy Stephanie Romanov as First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Kevin Costner as Special Assistant to the President Kenneth O'Donnell Dylan Baker as Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara Michael Fairman as United States Ambassador to the United Nations Adlai Stevenson II Daniel Vergara as Secretary General of the Organization of American States José Antonio Mora Bill Smitrovich as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Maxwell Taylor, USA Jack Blessing as ABC News correspondent John A. Scali Frank Wood as National Security Advisor McGeorge Bundy Ed Lauter as Deputy Director of the CIA Lieutenant General Marshall Carter, USA Madison Mason as Chief of Naval Operations Admiral George Whelan Anderson Jr. Kevin Conway as Chief of Staff of the USAF General Curtis LeMay, USAF Pramod Kumar as United Nations Secretary General U Thant Tim Kelleher as White House Counsel Ted Sorensen Len Cariou as Former Secretary of State Dean Acheson Charles Esten as U-2 pilot Major Rudolf Anderson, USAF Olek Krupa as Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko Lucinda Jenney as Helen O'Donnell, wife to Kenneth O'Donnell Jack McGee as Richard J. Daley, Mayor of Chicago Janet Coleman as Evelyn Lincoln, President Kennedy's Secretary Tom Everett as Walter Sheridan, Special assistant to President Kennedy Oleg Vidov as Valerian Zorin, Soviet Ambassador to the United Nations. John Aylward as Orvil Dryfoos,