The Missiles of October is a 1974 television docudrama about the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962. The title evokes the 1962 book The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman, about the missteps amongst

George Wildman Ball was an American diplomat and banker. He served in the management of the U.S. State Department from 1961 to 1966 and is remembered by most as the only cabinet member of Presidents J