Cast
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev / Nikita Khrushchev - Soviet Premier
U.N. Secretary-General U Thant / U Thant - U.N. Secretary-General
David Powers, Special Assistant to the President / David Powers - Special Assistant to the President
Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy / Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy
U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson / Adlai Stevenson - US Ambassador to UN
President John F. Kennedy / John F. Kennedy - US President
Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin
Gen. Maxwell Taylor, Army Chief of Staff / Gen. Maxwell Taylor - Army Chief of Staff
Congressman Charles A. Halleck
Robert McNamara - Secretary of Defense
Llewellyn Thompson - Former U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union
Alexander Fomin - KGB Agent
McGeorge Bundy - Special Assistant for National Security Affairs
Former Secretary of State Dean Acheson / Dean Acheson - Former Secretary of State
George Ball - Undersecretary of State
John McCone, Director CIA / John McCone - Director CIA
Adm. George W. Anderson Jr. - Chief of Naval Operations
Dean Rusk - Secretary of State
Pierre Salinger - White House Press Secretary
Andrei Gromyko - Soviet Foreign Minister
David Ormsby-Gore, British Ambassador to U.S. / David Ormsby-Gore - British Ambassador to U.S.
Kenneth O'Donnell - Special Assistant to the President
C. Douglas Dillon - Secretary of the Treasury
Sen. J. William Fulbright
Theodore Sorensen, Special Counsel / Theodore Sorensen - Special Counsel
Mrs. Evelyn Lincoln - President Kennedy's Secretary
John Scali - ABC Correspondent
Gen. David M. Shoup, USMC Commandant / Gen. David M. Shoup - USMC Commandant
Gen. Curtis LeMay - Air Force Chief of Staff / Gen. Curtis LeMay, - Air Force Chief of Staff
W.E. Knox - President, Westinghouse International
