TV Show Details
Air Date:September 18th, 1974
Last Air Date:September 18th, 1974
Network:ABC
Status:Ended
Genres:Drama , War & Politics
Original Language:English
TV Show Tags:
cold war
The Missiles of October (1974)
ABC
Miniseries
Audience Score
Plot
The Missiles of October is a 1974 docudrama made-for-television play about the Cuban missile crisis. The title evokes the book The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman about the missteps among the great powers and the failed chances to give an opponent a graceful way out, which led to the First World War. The teleplay introduced William Devane as John F. Kennedy and cast Martin Sheen as United States Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. The script is based on Robert Kennedy's book Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
