The movie Thirteen Days debuted in 2000 and Kevin Costner starred as Kenneth O'Donnell, Special Assistant to the
President (John F. Kennedy). In October 1962, a U-2 plane revealed that the Soviet Union was placing missiles in Cuba
In this video clip, the Kennedy administration tries to find a solution: http://svtube.svsd.net/play?id=uama4jd9sz
If you were sitting in that meeting room in October 1962, what thoughts would influence your choice of a decision? Eight
days later, on October 22nd, 1962, President Kennedy gives a televised speech to the nation to inform Americans that
missiles have been discovered in Cuba. As a citizen, what would your thoughts be on that evening of hearing the news?
Please respond with one paragraph (5-6 sentences) answer both questions presented.

Thirteen Days is a 2000 American historical political thriller film directed by Roger Donaldson. It dramatizes the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, seen from the perspective of the US political leadership. Kevin Costner stars as top White House assistant Kenneth P. O'Donnell, with Bruce Greenwood featured as President John F. Kennedy, Steven Culp as Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, and Dylan Baker as Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara.

While the film carries the same title as the 1969 book Thirteen Days by former Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, it is in fact based on the 1997 book, The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House During the Cuban Missile Crisis, by Ernest R. May and Philip D. Zelikow. It is the second docudrama made about the crisis, the first being 1974's The Missiles of October, which was based on Kennedy's book. The 2000 film contains some newly declassified information not available to the earlier production, but takes greater dramatic license, particularly in its choice of O'Donnell as protagonist. It received generally positive reviews from critics who praised the screenplay and performances of the cast but was a box office bomb grossing $66.6 million against its $80 million budget.

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