The movie was based, somewhat, on actual events that took place, however there were many inaccuracies and discrepancies between the movie and the history behind the movie. Even though the Whitehouse was shown, several times, throughout the movie, the characters playing the role(s) of John F. Kennedy, his brother, Robert Kennedy, and JFK’s staff were not portrayed as accurately as they should or could have been; for example, political aide, Kenny O’Donnell.

Kenny O’Donnell was portrayed in the movie as being a very important person for Kennedy. However, when looking up information on O’Donnell, even in Kennedy’s book, A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis, O’

Further only two or three people--not the bulk of the ExComm—“knew about Robert Kennedy's secret October 27 meeting with Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin and, his offer to remove the Turkish missiles”6. But these artistic discretions do not depart substantially enough from what really happened to discredit the film. Far more significant is the film's one-sided presentation of the events in 1962.

5 Blight and others, Cuba on the Brink: Castro, the

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