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No one has ever argued that O’Donnell, who served as White House appointments secretary and political adviser after Kennedy became president in 1961, played an important role in the missile crisis. To the contrary, a host of historians, political scientists, journalists, and Kennedy aides — including Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Graham Allison, Marvin Kalb, and Theodore Sorensen — have said that O’Donnell “had nothing to do with the Cuban missile crisis.” In real life, but because of Hollywood success rates the movie is made to seem as if he is one of the most important parts of the whole crisis, which was incorrect. And though its just one part that is incorrect, it affects the whole movie, portraying the wrong image to the public. Making the facts seem like they were wrong. The main director Everyman device works best when the O’Donnell character is inside the White House, he is at centre stage, not watching from a corner. My students left the theatre convinced that O’Donnell had been a more important figure in the crisis than Attorney General Robert Kennedy or any other member of Ex Comm, which is inaccurate. Leading to the fact that though the movie had high historical ratings, there was a lot of