A beat.  Kenny stands straight, ready for action, ready for

            some necessary thing.  Ready to go back into the game.

                                THE PRESIDENT (CONT'D)

                      ...never mind.  See you around, Kenny.

            Kenny starts to leave, but at the door, turns back.

                                KENNY

                      You know...

            The President looks at him in the mirror.

                                KENNY (CONT'D)

                      ...this was what we're here for.

            The President smiles an ever-so-faint smile.  Kenny turns and

            leaves the room, vanishing, and as we HOLD on the empty

            doorway, the simple, whistled melody of O'DONNELL ABOO drifts

            from the hallway beyond, becoming our END MUSIC.

            FADE OUT

            SUPER:

            Shortly after the crisis President Kennedy ordered a

            reassessment of U.S.-Soviet relations, ushering a brief thaw

            in the Cold War.  During this time, the Washington-Moscow

            hotline was installed to ensure that in a future crisis,

            miscommunication would not lead to nuclear war.

            The President was assassinated on November 22nd, a year after

            the crisis ended.

            THE SUPER:

            Bobby Kennedy ran for president in 1968.  After winning the

            California primary, he called Kenny from the Ambassador Hotel

            in Los Angeles and told him, "I finally feel like I'm out

            from under my brother's shadow."

            Bobby was assassinated minutes later.

            THEN SUPER:

            The members of EXCOM continued  to serve with distinction in

            government in various capacities over the next three decades.

            As Lyndon Johnson's Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara

            urged containment of the Soviet threat in every theatre of

            conflict around the world.  He ultimately advised President

            Johnson to increase the U.S. military commitment to one of

            these minor backwater conflicts: Vietnam.

            AND FINALLY SUPER:

            Kenny O'Donnell witnessed the President's assassination from

            the car behind.  He went on to head the Peace Platform at the

            1968 Democratic National  Convention, fighting to end the

            Vietnam War.  He died in 1977.