Darsteller
Kevin Costner (Kenneth P. O'Donnell), Bruce Greenwood (John F. Kennedy), Steven Culp (Robert F. Kennedy), Lucinda Jenney (Helen O'Donnell), Dylan Baker (Robert McNamara), Michael Fairman (Adlai Stevenson), Henry Strozier (Dean Rusk), Frank Wood (McGeorge Bundy), Kevin Conway (Gen. Curtis LeMay), Tim Kelleher (Ted Sorensen), Len Cariou (Dean Acheson), Bill Smitrovich (Gen. Maxwell Taylor), Dakin Matthews (Arthur Lundahl), Madison Mason (Adm. George Anderson), Christopher Lawford (Cmdr. William B. Ecker), Ed Lauter (Gen. Marshall Carter), Elya Baskin (Anatoly Dobrinyn), Boris Lee Krutonog (Alexander Formin), Peter White (John McCone), James Karen (George Ball), Tim Jerome (Journalist), Olek Krupa (Andrei Gromyko), Oleg Vidov (Valerian Zorin), Stephanie Romanov (Jacqueline Kennedy)