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the president of the soviet union during the Cuban Missile Crisis

Nikita Krushchev

Director of the CIA during the Cuban Missile Crisis

Allen Dules

President Kennedy's Chief of Staff during the Bay of Pigs Crisis

Maxwell Taylor

President of Cuba in 1959 when the communist takeover occurred

Fulgencio Batista

writer of "profiles in courage", which is about his experiences on the PT 109 Gunboat

John F. Kennedy

JFK's running mate in he 1960 election

Lyndon Johnson

Richard Nixon's running mate in the 1960 election

Henry Cabot Lodge

Led the communist revolution in Cuba

Fidel Castro

Mafia Boss who delivered the votes from Cook County that led to JFK's victory in Illinios

Sam Giancana

the 3rd party candidate in the 1960 election

Harry Byrd

American Attorney General who made a deal with Anatoly Dobrynin that solved the Cuban Missile Crisis

Robert Kennedy

Soviet Ambassador who made a deal with Robert Kennedy that solved the Cuban Missile Crisis

Anatoly Dobrynin

Secretary of State during the Cuban Missile Crisis

Dean Rusk

Security Advisor during the Cuban Missile Crisis

McGeorge Bundy

American U-2 pilot who was that only death in the Cuban Missile Crisis

Rudolf Anderson

American Representative at the UN during the Cuban Missile Crisis

Adlai Stevenson

Special assistant to JFK, played by Kevin Costner in the film "Thirteen Days"

Ken O'Donnell

Secretary of Defense during the Cuban Missile Crisis

Robert McNamara

Air Forces Chief of Staff who disagreed with the handling of the Cuban Missile Crisis

Curtis LeMay

Governor of Texas who was also shot when JFK was shot

John Connally

Chief of Justice of the Supreme Court put in charge of investigating JFK's assassination

Earl Warren



charged with killing JFK

Lee Harvey Oswald

FBI director who told Bobby Kennedy about JFK's assassination

J. Edgar Hoover

Dallas Patrol who shot Oswald after JFK assassination

J.D. Tippit

The Secret Service agent who was on the back bumper of the presidential motorcade

Clint Hill

CBS anchorman who announced JFK"s death

Walter Cronkite

Secret Service agent in command of JFK's motorcade through Dallas

Roy Kellerman

Soviet Foreign Minister at JFK's funeral

Andrei Gromyko

retired general who Oswald tried to shoot prior to the Kenndy assassination

Edwin Walker

JFK's 3 children

Caroline, John Jr., and Patrick

Main spokesman for non-violence in America

Martin Luther King Jr.



Leader of the Black Panthers

H. Raft Brown

Public defender in the "Brown Vs. Board of Education" case

Thurgood Marshall

Mafia figure who shot Oswald

Jack Ruby

Creator of the "rockabilly" music style in the 1950's

Elvis Presley

Founder of the Beatles

John Lennon

Killed John Lennon

Mark David Chapman

the first to introduce American audiences to the Beatles

Ed Sullivan

the only two Beatles still alive

Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr

Manager of the Beatles that made them famous

Brain Epstein

Creator of "American Bandstand" and major promoter of "Rock and Roll"

Dick Clark

Leader of Communist North Vietnam

Ho Chi Minh

Leaked pentagon papers to the press

Daniel Ellsberg

deposed leader of South Vietnam

Ngo Dinh Diem

secretary of state at the Paris Peace Talks

Henry Kissinger

killed Martin Luther King Jr.

James Earl Ray

killed Bobby Kennedy

Sirhan Sirhan

Commander of American Forces in Vietnam

William Westmoreland

democratic candidate in the 1968 election

Hubert Humphrey

Chicago Mayor at the Democratic Convention

Richard Daley

North Vietnam's foreign secretary at Paris

Le Duc Tho

President who started america's commitment to Vietnam in the 1950's

Dwight D. Eisenhower